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U.S. General salutes a military “hero” by Jim Hightower
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en. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, has a particular military hero he wants to honor. Well sure, who doesn’t admire Gen. George Washington? Or maybe Dempsey’s favorite is from the Civil War or World War II. Or here’s a twist: Maybe it’s Gen. Buck Turgidson from the Dr. Strangelove movie! But no, Dempsey’s choice is even more twisted: King Abdullah Bin AbdulAziz of Saudi Arabia. Abdullah, who headed the royal Saud family and became
the ruling Saudi monarch in 2005, died in January at age 90. Having served as U.S. military advisor to the King’s national guard, Dempsey now lauds the royal gabillionaire for being “a man of remarkable character and courage.” Thus, Dempsey has launched a scholarly essay contest for students at our National Defense University, calling it a “fitting tribute to the [monarch’s] leadership.” Leadership? To what end? The King’s militaristic, autocratic, theocratic regime was revoltingly repressive, especially against women and dissidents. I wonder,
for example, if Dempsey’s contest will welcome essays about King Abdullah’s gross human rights abuses, including vicious lashings of religious and political dissidents and weekly public beheadings to punish even such minor “criminals” as drug users? Then there’s King Abudullah’s allocation of billions of dollars from the family’s oil monopoly. This money is still funding the global spread of Wahhabism, the Kingdom’s extremist, violent perversion of Islam that has helped spawn Al Qaeda and the barbaric Islamic State, both of which are at war with America. Dempsey’s choice for hero worship just proves that generals should not be in the essay business — and they damn sure shouldn’t be propagandizing students with the notion that autocratic monarchs are worthy models of character and leadership. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. July 2, 2015 5
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two previous sessions. The group measures leadership, not just voting records, tabulating actions like bills introduced, speeches given and so forth. In 2013, Sanders introduced — along with Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) — the Climate Protection Act. It would tax carbon and methane emissions and rebate three-fifths of the revenue to citizens, then invest the rest in energy efficiency, climate resiliency and sustainable energy (including investments in wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and plug-in vehicles). In 2013, Sanders introduced the Residential Energy Savings Act to fund financing programs that would help residents retrofit their homes for energy efficiency. In 2012, Sanders introduced the End Polluter Welfare Act, to eliminate subsidies and tax breaks for coal, oil and gas producers. He said at the time, “It is immoral that some in Congress advocate savage cuts in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security while those same people vote to preserve billions in tax breaks for ExxonMobil, the most profitable corporation in America.” He’s also an opponent of subsidies and tax breaks for the nuclear power industry. In 2010, Sanders authored a bill to encourage the development of “distributed solar power” all over the United States. That means anyone with a solar panel could create their own energy instead of
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depending on a monopolistic utility company. Sanders called it the “10 Million Solar Roofs & 10 Million Gallons of Solar Hot Water Act.” Given the balance of power in Congress, none of these bills passed. The Energy & Environment website notes that Sanders has been a crucial progressive advocate as a member of both the Environment and Public Works and the Energy and Natural Resources Committees. Sanders is the only major party presidential candidate to support a ban on fracking. “I’m very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking,” he said last year. “I hope communities all over America do the same.” Bill McKibben praises Sanders’ stellar environmental record. “He’s been the most consistent and pro-active voice in the entire Keystone fight,” McKibben says. “Everything that’s been needed — from speeches on the floor to legislation to demands that the State Department change its absurd review process — he and his staff have done immediately and with a high degree of professionalism. ... On climate stuff he’s been the most aggressive voice in the Senate. ... He understands it
for the deep, simple problem it is: that we can’t keep burning this stuff.” McKibben says that what is “really remarkable” about Sanders is that the environment is “not his defining issue. ...[H]e fits no one’s stereotype of an enviro. He doesn’t put on a spandex suit and go crosscountry skiing. ... He doesn’t go on and on about the woods and the rivers — he goes on and on about working class Vermonters who can’t afford health care and heating oil. His issue is inequality and unfairness, and it has been from the start.” McKibben says that Sanders is “just the kind of ally we (environmentalists) need. Because it’s a constant reminder that this battle is for people, who need renewable energy so they can break the constant cycle of struggling to pay the fuel bill, and because it will be the source of good jobs.” In his presidential campaign, Sanders can provide a bridge between the labor and environmental movements so a powerful coalition can be built. We are seeing the beginnings of such a coalition in the fight against the Trans Pacific Partnership. We can only beat the plutocrats if we work together. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.
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f the mayor of a fishing village decried shark attacks, and the headline in the next day’s paper read, “Mayor opposes fish,” you might think the paper had it in for him. That’s about where Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator running for president, stood with the press after his rally last weekend in Denver, which drew a formidable 5,000 people. Try a thought exercise with me. Pretend you’re the editor at The Denver Post who’s writing the headline on the story about Sanders’s speech. The recurring themes of the speech are well represented by the following extracts: “In my view, the issue of wealth and income inequality is the great moral issue of our time. It is the great economic issue of our time. It is the great political issue of our time.” “There is something profoundly wrong when the top one-tenth of 1 percent today owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. There is something profoundly wrong when today 99 percent of all new income created goes to the top 1 percent. ... There is something profoundly wrong when one family in America, the Walton Boulder Weekly
family, owns more wealth than the bottom 130 million Americans.” “What we are doing tonight is sending a message to the billionaire class, and that is: You can’t have it all.” When you write your headline, what noun do you put in the following blank: “Bernie Sanders delivers blistering condemnation of _________, billionaires in Denver”? (a) inequality (b) greed (c) business. The virtue of (a) and (b) is that they are true. Throughout his speech, Sanders directed his fire almost exclusively at America’s appalling economic inequality and a few of the most rapacious grandees who uphold it — the sharks. Truth, however, did not suit the Post, which went for (c), whose virtue was that it smeared Sanders with the false claim that he was against business generally. It is a claim, of course, that justifiably vexed any number of businesspeople and the myriad employees who depend on them — the fish. So that no one would miss the point, the Post’s see GUEST COMMENTARY Page 8
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reporter also led with the slur in his article. It would be gratifying to report this idiocy was idiosyncratic to the Post, whose dislike of Sanders is undisguised. (The Post had already taken the unusual step, months ahead of the first primary, of editorializing against Sanders and his “history of odd views.”) But it wasn’t just the Post. The Associated Press ran a similar story, which a number of outlets uncritically snapped up, and many other newspeople have treated Sanders likewise on many other occasions. What you’d never guess from reading the pieces about the Denver rally is that so rarely did Sanders speak of business, he never had cause to use the word, save for a colloquial lamentation of Washington’s “business as usual” attitude toward climate change. He used “corporate” just once (and “corporation” not at all), when decrying corporate trade agreements that sent American jobs abroad and watered down health and environmental laws. His only other assault on corporations was his call to break up “too big to exist” banks. In short, in an hour-long speech, he attacked “business” just twice, and at that only a few of the largest and most notoriously avaricious of corporations. What Sanders realizes, but the mainstream media does not, is that you needn’t argue against business to argue for ordinary Americans. This choice between treating workers well or businesses well is a false zero-sum game. If you doubt it, take a look at Germany, Switzerland or Finland, all of whose robust economies are marked by thriving businesses and generously compensated workers, even in a battered Europe. Or look at IKEA, which last year raised its U.S. minimum wage, which caused its employee turnover to decline so dramatically and the quality of its job applicants to improve so dramatically that the company is raising the minimum wage again, to an average of nearly $12 an hour. (The wage varies with the local cost of living.) Far from an attack on business, then, Sanders’s speech was a series of passionate pleas for the little guy — pleas for paid family and medical leave and paid vacation time, restoration of the 40-hour work week, an increase in the minimum wage, expansion of Social Security, universal health care, free tuition at state colleges, a repeal of the Supreme Court’s billionairefriendly Citizens United ruling, and an end to global warming, which, incidentally, is crippling many an agricultural business. Only a willful misreading could have turned his speech into a wholesale attack on “business.” But the AP and Post were not just willful misreaders; they were also skilled ones. By presenting the “Bernie hates business” claim as calm fact, they appeared more credible, and he more dangerous, than had
they reported his actual views and declared them extremist. Consider the one time that the Post’s reporter, John Frank, tried to do just that, deep in his article. Sanders’ “stance on particular issues,” Frank wrote, “is likely to alienate some Democrats. Sanders, who identifies as a democratic socialist, vowed to break up large banks, offer government-paid health care and overturn the Supreme Court’s decision in the Citizens United campaign finance case, replacing it with public funding of elections.” I don’t know which Democrats Frank is talking to, but every Democrat I know — and broad majorities of polled Democrats — would sooner oppose a cure for cancer than oppose those measures. What Frank meant by “likely to alienate some Democrats” was that he, his employer and the minority Wall Street wing of the Democratic Party are alienated by Sanders’s progressivism. Because the facts didn’t bear out Frank’s editorializing, many readers could see through it, which is perhaps why it landed near the bottom of the article while the misrepresentation of Sanders alighted on the lede. If you sense in all of this a certain fear and trembling among the media, you wouldn’t be far wrong. As I’ve written elsewhere, from the moment Sanders stepped into the race, an awful lot of publishers, editors and reporters splashed around an awful lot of ink to portray Sanders as an unelectable extremist — notwithstanding that most Americans support his core positions and that he is polling better at this stage of the race than did earlier Democratic candidates who went on to become president. The same journalists unashamedly touted their consecrated candidate, Hillary Clinton, whose center-rightism on economic and foreign affairs and centerleftism on social affairs match their own politics. Yet despite their best efforts, Sanders is ascendant. Just six weeks into his campaign, his support among Democratic voters had climbed from 4 to 15 percent, which, seven months before primary season, compares favorably to Obama’s 22 percent weeks before his first primary in 2008. (At the time, Clinton’s 41 percent was deemed “insurmountable.” Sound familiar?) As of last week in the first-primary state of New Hampshire, Sanders was polling an astonishing 31 percent while Clinton had dropped to 41 percent. The crowds that have turned out for Sanders are the uncomfortable manifestation (uncomfortable to the press anyway) of the poll numbers. Here are a few facts about those crowds that the media has utterly underreported, utterly unsurprisingly: Sanders drew his 5,000 in Denver, a city of 650,000, on little more than a Boulder Weekly
WE’LL MAKE YOU LOOK GREAT. AND THAT’S NO BULL! week’s notice, the rally having been put together almost as an afterthought to a trip to California. Clinton’s biggest crowd to date is also 5,000, but it came at her long-planned, highly orchestrated campaign kickoff in New York City, population 8 million. The draw was embarrassingly smaller than her campaign had expected, as was made clear by two large, roped-off, but unoccupied viewing areas at the rally. It was all the more embarrassing when set beside the 5,000 at Sanders’s kickoff in Burlington, Vermont — population 42,000. So the anti-progressive media have cause to be fearful. And as Sanders’s numbers rise, so will their fears, and with them their smears. Sanders knows all too well that if he is to win the nomination, he’ll
need to use progressive social media to counter the pillorying he’s getting in the traditional media. To judge from his numbers, he’s doing that pretty well. Whether he can do it well enough to win — whether, for that matter, anyone can do it well enough to win in our oligarchic political system, a system that is all but bought and paid for by the wealthy and that is wellguarded by their praetorians in the media — is another question. For the moment, though, let’s just enjoy watching the oligarchs and praetorians squirm. This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. Steve Hendricks is the author, most recently, of A Kidnapping in Milan: The CIA on Trial. His website is www.SteveHendricks.org. He lives in Boulder.
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Aging in place is the number one goal of the older adults I often see. As Dave Anderson writes in [Re: “Who will look after you someday?” Commentary, June 18], “There are at least 40 million adults in this country who are caregivers for an aging parent, a spouse or other loved one who needs additional assistance.” We know older adults want to age in place; and there are benefits. Older adults remain in the community, in the familiarity of their own homes and, hopefully, near family and friends. Family is first to provide care (I did so with my mother) and doing so is often expensive. But there are cost-friendly alternatives including home care, organizations providing low-cost home modifications, services to coordinate care or government-administered day programs like the Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly, which builds relationships among older adults who prefer to age in place. My mother was one of the lucky ones: she aged in place. Those of us who provide services to older adults have a responsibility to ensure the millions who want to age in place don’t have to rely on luck. Maureen Hewitt/Denver
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Actually, trans-racial and transgender concepts are identical except in the specific genetic trait that is being appropriated from an oppressed minority — the minorities being people of color and women, respectively. Members of a privileged, oppressing caste cannot and should not steal the identity of an oppressed group, for a variety of reasons. In the same way that a white woman cannot change her genetic heritage to make herself a person of recent African descent, a man cannot change his chromosomes or spontaneously grow functioning female sex organs in order to become a woman. More importantly, a white woman who was raised with white privilege (not knowing what it’s like to be considered a criminal until proven innocent, for example), or a man who was raised with male privilege (not knowing what it’s like to get a smaller salary for equal work, to get threatened with rape and murder every time he walks down the street, to be expected to alter his body in harmful ways to meet insane “beauty” standards, or to be considered stupid, weak and incompetent compared to any member of the other sex) cannot in any way take on the identity of black people or women, because they were socialised to be white and male, and therefore have no concept of what it means to be black or female. This is not a popular or fashionable opinion in today’s political climate, but it is the clear and obvious truth. And I know I am not the only person capable of calling a spade a spade, and standing up for the most down-trodden members of society. I would strongly encourage anyone who cares about the struggles of people of color and women to speak up against this very harmful “trans” fad. S.V. Santamaria/Longmont
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This letter is in response to the coverage of the fatal shooting at Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina and the subsequent surge of momentum to take down the Confederate Flag from all public and private places. The second amendment of the United States Constitution states: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Obviously the need for a state mili-
tia has been replaced by the National Guard and Coast Guard whereby trained military personnel are entrusted with the defense of this country against domestic enemies. Their weapons are tightly controlled and safeguarded. The only two reasons for a citizen to own a firearm are for hunting or defense of the household from intruders. In either case, ownership of a handgun, shotgun or rifle is more than adequate to satisfy these purposes. There is absolutely no need for any U.S. civilian to own any weapon more powerful or sophisticated than these. Accordingly, all handguns, shotguns and rifles must be licensed and registered to the degree necessary to match weapon to owner at the click of a computer key. Furthermore, we must guarantee that the mentally ill do not gain access to them under any circumstances. Finally, if we had prohibited the purchase of more sophisticated weapons several innocent victims would not have died or been harmed at shopping malls, college campuses, Congressional meetings and now churches. As for the Confederate Flag I agree that it should be removed from all government buildings because it is neither a national nor state flag. But the outpouring of yanking it [no pun intended] from everywhere else seems a bit extreme. Neither the flag used by the Army of Northern Virginia nor the official flag of the Confederacy had anything to do with being a symbol of proslavery, but rather were the colors adopted by men who chose to fight for the preservation of state’s rights against what was perceived as the growing encroachment of the Federal Government. Slavery may have been the straw that finally broke the Union’s back but it was the wealthy plantation owners who stood to lose most from the loss of their “peculiar institution.” Instead of following the North’s industrial push they left themselves behind only to be crushed by a more powerful enemy. Billy Yank and Johnny Reb did not enlist [or get drafted] into their respective armies to aid or oppose slavery; they did it because from each side’s point of view, it was the right thing to do. The ending of slavery was just a positive result stemming from the outcome of America’s second revolutionary war. Everyone is certainly entitled to their own opinion of the Civil War but fortunately they are not entitled to their own facts. Joe Bialek/Cleveland, OH Boulder Weekly
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utside a small housing development west of Pearl Street is a sign. The sign welcomes visitors and residents to Knollwood Village and outlines a few rules. The Knollwood Village homeowners association erected it several years ago. It’s just a regular old sign, like any other sign at the entrance of a development, but it now serves as a decent symbol for the battle being waged between homeowners in the village. It’s a battle that, when the City of Boulder’s Office of Human Rights rules on it in the coming weeks, could determine the rights of renters throughout the city. So what’s the deal with the sign? The fact that it exists violates a clause in the development’s 40-year charter prohibiting signage, some residents say. Others say that the clause only pertains to the erection of signs on individual units. It’s a matter of interpretation is the point. But because the five-person board of the homeowners association in Knollwood Village thinks it should stand, the sign stands. But that small argument over the sign is peanuts, merely a thumbnail, compared to what some homeowners in the development say are the newly enforced discriminatory regulations regarding what type of people are allowed to rent units in the facility. After hearing a complaint from a new 12 July 2, 2015
Tenants in a Boulder housing complex ask the city if requiring multiple renters to be married is discriminatory
homeowner in the area, and consulting a lawyer, the development’s homeowners association decided to only allow rentals to two or more people if they can prove they are a family. It could violate human rights laws both in the City of Boulder and the State of Colorado. Knollwood Village has only 20 units — three four-plexes and four duplexes. Many of the owners of the units in the development have lived there for 10 or more years, including Ron Levin, who now rents his space out to three single tenants. When a new owner recently bought and moved into a unit in the development (Zillow estimates homes in the development at about $1.2 million), Levin says the newcomer may not have been too fond of his unmarried (and noisy) neighbors and went to the homeowners association to see if anything could be done. Upon looking at Knollwood Village’s charter, the association found an original clause claiming that units could only be rented to single families. That clause was effectively dormant up until this year because nearly everyone in the village had been renting out units for decades. “Well I don’t know this for sure, but I don’t think it’s ever been enforced,” says Alan Press, Knollwood Village homeowners association chair, who used to rent out his unit up until the late ’90s, when he moved in full-time.
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“But there’s also something in our declaration that says, and I’m paraphrasing, just because a restriction or something in the declaration hasn’t been enforced doesn’t mean that it can’t subsequently be enforced in the future.” Press declined to speak specifically about the impetus for the kerfuffle, but says that when “some” owners asked the board to enforce the clause recently, the association took “a somewhat informal survey” of the 20 unit owners and found that the majority of the owners wanted to start enforcing the regulation. While Press says the majority of owners want the clause enforced, Levin says the board has taken only their own considerations into account and that the true will of the housing complex is to amend the clause. “Three people on the board are trying to push their issue,” Levin says. “A hundred percent it’s [only] the board members.” Whatever the real split of opinion in the complex, the board went ahead and hired a lawyer through the management company (using money collected from homeowners via fees) to determine what constitutes a single family. What came back was the determination that a single family is any two or more people that can establish a “financial interdependence” and are related by blood, guardianship, marriage or adoption. Herein lies the issue. The City of
Boulder prohibits any rental agency from prohibiting housing based on marital status. Does the enforcement of this claim count as discriminating against single people? “It’s discrimination 100 percent,” Levin says. “In order for us to rent, I’m not going to ask anyone any discriminatory questions, like their marital status or their financial arrangement with their partner. This board is putting us in a bad position.” Press says he believes the enforcement of the clause is not discriminatory because the association allows rentals to one single person, just not two unrelated ones. Carmen Atilano, community relations manager at Boulder’s Office of Human Rights, says her office investigates potential discriminatory acts when claims are submitted. Though Atilano is unable to say if a particular case is under investigation, Press says there was a claim submitted last week and that the Knollwood board is expecting to hear a decision within two weeks. Atilano says the Boulder Human Rights Ordinance protects certain groups of people from discrimination in such things like housing. “There are a number of protected classes and a protected class can’t be a reason why you wouldn’t rent to somebody,” Atilano says. “So marital status is a protected class. Marital status could fall within the area of being single or Boulder Weekly
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being married. Our local law reads that discrimination is unlawful when a landlord, in this particular case, carries or makes a decision not to rent or sell a property to someone because of their protected class.” Atilano says other protected classes include gender, race, religion, disability and more. In order to override these protected classes, Atilano says, a housing group would have to prove there is a “bona fide” reason for excluding that group of people. For instance, a religious group may be able to prohibit certain protected classes from renting, or a women’s-only housing structure could prohibit men from living there. In the case of Knollwood Village, again Atilano couldn’t speak directly about the case but she did elaborate on a similar hypothetical situation. “If in a housing ad they say that they don’t want two unrelated people, that’s an interesting one because then we would have to focus on what was the intent of that ad,” Atilano says. “Was the intent of the ad to only rent to married couples, for instance. First of all, we’d see if there was a bona fide reason, but second of all we’d have to look at if there was an established pattern of discrimination. If there’s no bona fide reason, we would look at the pattern of who they’ve rented to in the past five years, per se. If we see the only people they’ve rented to are married couples and there’s no bona fide reason for it, that looks like it could be a violation of the ordinance.” If Atilano’s office determines that Knollwood Village is in violation of the city’s human rights laws, it will send a cease and desist letter to the association, and try to right anyone who’s been wronged — Atilano says this could include a reinstatement of housing for anyone who was kicked out because of the discriminatory rule. Levin says several people have already moved out or will move out because of the board’s decision to Boulder Weekly
enforce the rule. Others, Levin says, feel like they’re being unfairly targeted by what should be a group that is meant to simply help facilitate basic maintenance needs. As for his three tenants, Levin says he’ll have to ask them to leave if the clause is allowed to stand and that is emblematic of a bigger issue in the city. “For me to have to kick these guys out, that’s the whole problem with Boulder. That’s why people move to Longmont,” Levin says. “Then in turn someone comes in and pays a high price for the place and more people get displaced to Louisville and Longmont. Thus the problem in Boulder: the elitism.” Press says he’s glad the city will take a look at the situation in Knollwood Village but reiterated that he doesn’t think the enforcement of the clause is discriminatory. “This is, from my point of a view, a good thing, because it’s now being investigated [by the] City of Boulder and they will make a determination.” Press adds that though the city and state both require that housing decisions cannot be based on marital status, the federal government does not have such regulations. Atilano says oftentimes housing decisions are made by people who don’t fully understand the city’s rules regarding discrimination and anyone who is even questioning whether they are being discriminated against (or if their rules are discriminatory) should contact the city. “There is a lot of grey area,” Atilano says. “That’s why it’s best if somebody is really questioning a covenant or an ad, that they talk to us because there could be reasons why it’s that way or it could be a time for education to the housing development. That’s what we find a lot of in Boulder. Not that landlords or housing entities are outright wanting to discriminate, sometimes it just takes some education on our laws.”
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n June 27, 30-yearold educator and activist Bree Newsome climbed the three-story-high flagpole in front of the South Carolina statehouse in Columbia and pulled down the Confederate battle flag. Her climb was necessitated by the fact the flag was more or less permanently attached to the poll where it flew 24 hours a day with no way of being lowered or flown at half-mast. Until that moment, a piece of cloth with some symbol of the Confederacy had been flying continuously at the South Carolina capitol since 1961. From her actions and subsequent comments to the press, we know that for Newsome, the red cloth with its stars and bars is a disturbing symbol of racism, slavery and oppression. Search the name Dylann Roof and you will eventually come across the same flag. Once you get past the thousands of stories describing how the skinny, 21-yearold man with dead eyes allegedly attended a Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina wherein he opened fire on the congregates, slaughtering nine innocent people — you will find photos of Roof posing proudly with the Confederate flag that Newsome finds so offensive. From his own photo collection, we know that Roof held the Confederate flag in high regard. It is alleged that as Roof was murdering his victims, he told them it was because they (presumably minorities, particularly blacks) were “taking over the country.” From his actions and comments, we know that, for Roof, the red cloth with its stars and bars is a powerful symbol of white pride and a type of twisted patriotism that believes our country should be controlled only by whites for the benefit of whites. Roof has reportedly said the shootings were an effort to start a race war. Attend a football game at the University of Mississippi and you will see 50,000 people of all races hoisting the Confederate flag as they cheer on their team, the Rebels. Again, it’s safe to assume that for most of these fans, the Confederate flags they are waving are nothing more than a symbol of school pride. And for quite a few Southerners — despite what many 14 July 2, 2015
flag. Among whites, 61 percent have no reaction. “Whites who consider themselves Southerners have a more positive reaction to the Confederate flag than do other whites: 22 percent say they react positively when they see the Confederate flag displayed, compared with 8 percent of all whites and just 4 percent of whites who do not consider themselves Southerners. “Nearly half of those with at least a college degree (46 percent) say they have a negative reaction to the display of the Confederate flag, compared with a third (33 percent) of those with some college experience and just 18 percent of those with a high school diploma or less. “There also are partisan differences in reactions to the flag: about twice as many Democrats (44 percent) as Republicans (21 percent) react negatively to displays of the Confederate flag. And Republicans are more likely than Democrats to have a positive reaction to the flag (15 percent vs. 7 percent).” No doubt these numbers will have changed in recent weeks as media saturation of the flag debate, sparked by the Charleston church shooting, has made its way to our nation’s water coolers. America is now arguing, sometimes violently, over the future of the Confederate flag. Should it be illegal to display this piece of cloth on government property? Should it be considered a form of hate speech? Should stores sell it? It’s an interesting conversation — one we should have had decades ago to be sure. But in the current context, it is a discussion that sidesteps the larger issues at hand. In one sense, flags are merely pieces of cloth, products of the textile industry and nothing more. The only thing that makes a flag different from a washcloth is the meaning each of us projects onto it. Flags are simply mirrors reflecting our individual experiences. For Old Miss alum, the flag may represent a joyous time away at college with friends long since gone. For a black American who grew up being harassed, oppressed and even physically abused by people flying the flag, tattooed with the flag or driving cars with Confederate flag license plates, the flag means something completely different. For that reason, we need to be talking about racism and guns and hate groups, not merely raging against symbolism in the form of a flag that has a different meaning to every person who sees it. This is not to say that the Confederate flag is unimportant to those who have felt its sting or have viewed it as inspiration for committing the unthinkable. It is only a reminder that taking down a flag in a few high-profile places will not cure the underlining social problems, and the current effort to diminish the
by Joel Dyer want to believe in the wake of the grotesque church murders — the Confederate flag really does stand for “heritage, not hatred,” a phrase that has quickly made its way into our lexicon as part of the flag debate, a debate complicated because one flag can have so many interpretations. Research tells us how we view this particular piece of cloth depends on our race, our geographic location and our level of education. According to a 2011 poll conducted by the Pew Research Center for U.S. Politics and Policy, “Only a small number of Americans say they display the Confederate flag, but that symbol of the Southern cause elicits more negative reactions from some groups — especially African Americans, Democrats and the highly educated. Nevertheless, most Americans say they do not react positively or negatively when they see the Confederate flag. “Fewer than one-in-ten (8 percent) say they display the Confederate flag in places such as their home or office, on their car or on their clothing; 91 percent say they do not. The number that displays the Confederate flag is just a small fraction of the 75 percent who say they display the American flag in their homes or offices, on their cars or their clothing. “Far more African Americans than whites have a negative reaction to the Confederate flag (41 percent to 29 percent). Still, about as many blacks have no reaction (45 percent) as a negative reaction to the Confederate
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Confederate flag will not be without consequences. In the end, as with other mostly symbolic efforts orchestrated primarily by politicians and media coverage, the actual, realworld outcome of the flag debate may be the exact opposite of what most people are trying to accomplish. All indications are that it will be similar to what occurs when the gun control debate heats up following every tragic mass shooting. Despite the best of intentions, such efforts generally lead to more gun sales, including to the most paranoid among us who are the most likely to turn their firearms on innocent victims at some point down the road. Sadly, this isn’t speculation; it’s simply what happens in the real world. When we push, there is pushback. For instance, in the early 1990s, it was the threat of increased gun control by the federal government that fueled the birth and rapid growth of the antigovernment/patriot movement, a movement that eventually grew to several million people and led to tragedies such as the Branch Davidian standoff in Waco, Texas as well as the Oklahoma City bombing. South Carolina and other states may ultimately remove Confederate imagery from their Statehouse grounds, flags and parks, but history tells us the process of doing so will likely result in more people being drawn into the racist right and/or antigovernment/patriot organizations; an increase in the overall use of confederate flag imagery across the nation; an increase in the sale of guns; and quite likely, an increase in hate crimes against persons of color, Jews, Muslims and members of the LGBT community. And for what gain? A symbolic victory that will never find a member of the KKK, Aryan Nations or a skin head lacking the security of their favorite Confederate flag. Such paraphernalia will always be available to those who desire it. This warning of the potential dire consequences is not meant to imply that we shouldn’t confront our nation’s more serious problems out of fear of a possible violent backlash; just the opposite. We should confront the real and difficult issues of racism, hate groups and guns in more substantive ways than merely assaulting a symbol. We should confront these issues at their core by way of education, economic opportunity, tolerance, forgiveness, peaceful protests, the power of the ballet box and by demanding responsible media coverage that informs rather than inflames. If we fight only a symbolic battle against a piece of cloth then we are destined to have nothing more than a symbolic victory that leads only to symbolic change. The current state of hate and racism in America demands more than a symbolic gesture. The nine dead innocents in Charleston demand far more than that. Between 2000 and 2008, the membership of racist Boulder Weekly
How can our Muslim citizens look fondly on their own flag when pundits like Ann Coulter use the hypocracy of Fox News’ red, white and blue set to make hatefilled statements such as, “Someone needs to explain to me why gassing Arabs is such a bad thing”?
organizations including the KKK, skinheads, White Nationalists and neo-Nazis grew at just over 30 percent. After the election of the nation’s first black president in 2008, that growth trend increased significantly. The number of antigovernment/patriot groups and membership in those groups shrank during the late 1990s following the Oklahoma City Bombing, but sometime around 2005 they once again began to grow. Since the election of Barack Obama, the numbers have swollen. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the number of antigovernment/patriot groups has grown 813 percent in recent years to an all-time high of 1,360 known organizations. The SPLC also reports that law enforcement has identified at least 50 antigovernment/patriot training camps, at least one of which is being operated by former police officers and military personnel. The church shooting in Charleston may turn out to be the straw that broke the camel’s back, particularly since it came on the heels of all the police shootings and other manner of violent killings of unarmed blacks, which has understandably placed race and violence at the forefront of our collective conscience. But when it comes to acts of violence by hate groups, it was only the latest example in an increasingly violent trend. Since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 that killed 168 men, women and children and wounded more than 500 others, SPLC reports that there have been 113 attempted and/or carried out racist rampages in the United States. In the 19 years between 1995 and the 2008 election of Barack Obama, there were 63 such acts of violence. Since 2008, there have already been 50 such rampages, including Charleston. In other words, the rate of such racist attacks has doubled since Obama
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took office. There has also been a significant increase in the numbers of vigilante border patrollers on the U.S./ Mexican border. These groups are generally associated with the patriot movement and have committed numerous violent acts against undocumented Latinos who have crossed the border. As for hate crimes in general, the numbers are staggering. According to a 2005 special report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics titled Hate Crimes Reported by Victims and Police, “an annual average of 210,000 hate crime victimizations occurred from July 2000 through December 2003.” Although a follow-up study has not been done, it is likely that those numbers have also increased significantly since 2008 in response to a black president, the legal victories concerning same sex marriage, increasing tensions over border policies and immigration and the sensationalized media coverage of all the above. The SPLC website has this to say about this increase in antigovernment/patriot groups: “They’re back. Almost a decade after largely disappearing from public view, right-wing militias, ideologically driven tax defiers and sovereign citizens are appearing in large numbers around the country. … And once-popular militia conspiracy theories are making the rounds again, this time accompanied by nativist theories about secret Mexican plans to “reconquer” the American Southwest. Authorities around the country are reporting a worrying uptick in Patriot activities and propaganda. ‘This is the most significant growth we’ve seen in 10 to 12 years,’ says one. ‘All it’s lacking is a spark. I think it’s only a matter of time before you see threats and violence.’” If the simple election of a black president has caused such resurgence in violent antigovernment and racist activism, then what might be the missing spark that could push things over the edge? Could it be something purely symbolic such as the current attack on the Confederate flag? History says, “Yes.” The backlash against the movement to get rid of the Confederate flag has likely already begun. Seven black churches in the South have already burned since the Charleston shooting, most of the fires are still under investigation but it seems more than coincidental. Other evidence can be found in the fact that the flags have become a very hot commodity since the Charleston slaughter. Despite the decision by the nation’s largest retailers — including the likes of Walmart, eBay, Apple, Sears, Kmart, Google and Amazon — to stop selling Confederate flags and items containing the flag’s imagery, sales have been brisk. The New York Times reports that Amazon alone was selling some 29,000 items containing the stars and bars See FLAG Page 16
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including “bikinis, shower curtains, ceramic coasters, cupcake toppers and even a tongue ring.” Even as the company was preparing to shut down its sales of Confederate flags, the Times reported that “Confederate flags jumped to the top of Amazon’s Patio, Lawn and Garden category, with purchases of some items spiking by more than 5,000 percent.” According to numerous media reports, Apple went so far as to stop the sale of a number of Civil War games containing images of the Confederate flag, which had been available in its iTunes App Store. At the same time retailers were pulling back, flag manufacturers were also feeling the heat to distance themselves from the church shooting fallout. At least four U.S. manufacturers have now announced they will no longer make the battle flag. What’s next? Shall we stop selling history books on the Civil War in the name of political correctness? Of course, all this retail posturing has been met with joy by smaller outlets that are now prospering from their enhanced sale of confederate merchandise. Countries like China, Indonesia and Guatemala will happily pick up the manufacturing slack. It appears that when the dust settles, every person who owned a Confederate flag because they are a racist hatemonger will now own several. And besides, since flags are simply mirrors reflecting our individual experiences, we might want to start concerning ourselves with other flags, perhaps the one that Pew says 75 percent of us display in some manner. On this particular point, two wellknown purveyors of hate speech in their own right — Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and hyper-conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh — have both weighed in. According to multiple media sources including the Washington Times, Farrakhan recently told his audience at the Metropolitan African Methodist
When members of our own government wrap themselves in the flag to attack the LGBT community, It makes it harder for some people to see the flag in a positive light.
Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. that he didn’t understand the hoopla over the Confederate flag. He went on to say that “We need to put the American flag down. Because we’ve caught as much hell under that as the Confederate flag. … Who are we fighting today? It’s the people that carry the American flag.” The escalation from Confederate flag to American flag as a symbol of oppression was something Limbaugh was anticipating and more than happy to turn into yet another imaginary bullet fired at his right-wing listeners by the “Obama crowd.” With regards to the church shooting, Limbaugh told his radio audience the Confederate flag had nothing to do with it. He told them the left was using the tragedy to launch an “all-out assault” on “American culture.” He accused Democrats of using the church shooting to attack “Southern culture, and the South as a whole.” And he concluded by warning, “The next thing that’s gonna happen is somebody’s gonna say the American flag has flown over far more bigotry and racism and homophobia
than the Confederate flag, and somebody’s gonna make a move to replace it.” Replace the American flag? No. That’s just the punch line to keep his paranoid listeners worked up into an antigovernment lather. But as to his prediction that someone would point out “the American flag has flown over far more bigotry and racism and homophobia than the Confederate flag,” on that note, he’s right. Someone will and someone should. Farrakhan made this point for all the wrong reasons; he, like Limbaugh, makes his living by nurturing anger, fear and hatred. But strip all that away and the truth of what both of these men said is still there: for millions of people here and throughout the world, the American flag no longer reflects “Liberty and Justice for all,” but rather “bigotry and racism and homophobia.” Donald Trump wasn’t standing in front of the Confederate flag and didn’t have a stars and bars pin in his lapel when he announced his bid for the presidency at the same time claiming that undocumented folks crossing the southern border are rapists and drug smugglers. It was the American flag.
When Ann Coulter goes onto the red, white and blue, American-flagstudded set of Fox News and says things like “someone needs to explain to me why gassing Arabs is such a bad thing,” how does that impact an Arab citizen’s perception of our flag? When groups opposed to gay marriage, and the LGBT community in general, hold rallies with protest signs that are red, white and blue and the American flag is as prevalent as the hate, what experiences will be mirrored by the site of an American flag later on for members of the LGBT community and its supporters? When U.S. politicians like Arkansas Representative Tom Cotton show up on flag-decorated posters touting their antigay messages, what does that do to millions of people’s impression of the flag? This isn’t new. In the 1960s it was “love it or leave it.” Many a person opposed to the Vietnam War learned to take cover when an American flag came their way. Failure to do so could land you in the hospital or worse. So here we are, once again celebrating the Fourth of July beneath a million American flags. For many this holiday, looking up at those flags will cause them to feel a sense of pride; equality; acceptance; a true appreciation for the many freedoms we have; gratitude for the many who have fought so heroically to create and preserve those freedoms; and gratefulness for the prosperity our country still makes possible. And having such feelings reflected by our flag is a really good thing. So let’s all try to remember that we share an obligation to ensure that everyone — regardless of race, religion, economic status, nationality or sexual orientation — can look at our flag without feeling fear, exclusion or persecution. Until that is the reality, the Confederate flag and the American flag have way too much in common. But we can fix that if we try, and the effort to do so is the truest form of patriotism — “with Liberty and Justice for all.”
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pom heads nodding in the breeze, warned us off especially boggy areas. But for the most part, the trail was dry and springy enough to give our steps an added bounce, as if we were striding across a trampoline. Our plan was to spend the first night of our hike in a hut on the shores of Lake Hundeso, but when we arrived we found it fully occupied by four Inuit — a man, a woman and two teenage girls. Huts like this one were not set up for the convenience of hikers like us, but were established as fishermen’s and hunters’ shelters, built by and for the locals. This one was an abandoned trailer that must have been hauled in by sled during the winter. It was dilapidated, weathered and streaked with rust, and the four Inuit inside all smoked heavily so we would not have survived a night in their company, even if there had been room to join them. Fortunately, someone had constructed a small tool shed next to the hut, which incorporated a couple of narrow bunks, so we stepped over the stripped bones of a slaughtered reindeer and squeezed in there. The Inuit man in the trailer was formal but friendly when we later met, shaking hands and introducing himself as Jorn. He was a stocky 30-something, dressed in a baggy shirt over camouflage pants with a couple of rips in them and had been on or around the Trail for a little over a week. He had little in the way of supplies and no food
other than a few slices of bread. But he did have a knife, as well as a rifle slung over one shoulder. As we boiled up a camper’s standby of tasteless noodles, Jorn squinted through his telescopic sight at the hillside opposite until he spotted something moving. He and the woman set off in pursuit, briefly outlined on the horizon before dropping out of sight. The two Inuit girls — both with punk hairstyles and piercings — emerged from the trailer to take a few selfies with their smart phones, then retreated into their smog. Half an hour later, Jorn and the woman were back with an arctic hare that Jorn thumped onto a make-
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shift chopping block outside our shed. He lopped off its head with one slice of his knife and tossed it onto the ground near our stove where it sat, upright, on its non-existent neck, with its eyes wide open. Then he chopped off the legs. One of the Inuit girls was handed a paw, perhaps as a souvenir, or maybe a charm. She stood beside us petting the fur while blood from the severed end dripped onto her shoes. Jorn skinned the carcass, ripping it from the flesh, then pulled out the liver, kidneys, heart and lungs with his hands. He’d once been a professional photographer, he told us, but now he worked as a guide and hunter, mainly employed by foreigners who would fly into Kangerlussuaq to hunt muskox. After preparing the hare for the pot, he unfurled a map in the newly spilled blood that was now congealing and also beginning to freeze, to show us where the muskox were most commonly found. Muskox, he said, are typically found north of the Kangerlussuaq fjord, while reindeer are seen on the tundra to the south. The musk-ox are big lumbering animals,
like bison or yaks, and are usually harmless unless you get too close. “There are a lot of rich people around who want a trophy head to hang on their wall,” Jorn said, “or at least enough of them to give me a living.” It drummed with rain during the night, but the morning dawned bright and cold. A strong wind blew from the northwest. Around 8 a.m., a Canadian woman — hiking solo — came through from the other end of the trail, starting at Sisimiut. There was snow on the higher ground, she said, and all the huts she’d passed were full. We spread our sleeping bags over our bunks to reserve our tool shed for a second night, then set off along the trail, stopping only to drink some water out of the lake. The lakes in Greenland — like the streams — are as pure and clear as the air. There are no pollutants, no oil, no soap and no giardia, so you can drink the water just as it is, without needing to filter or treat it. We made good progress, bouncing along on the springy turf, surrounded by a rich palette of reds and greens. The sky was cobalt, with not a single cloud in sight. Lakes were nestled everywhere in
Miriam Murcutt talks to hunters from Sisimiut as they divide up their reindeer kill. Most Inuit are not trophy-hunters, but hunt solely to eat, and they aim mainly for reindeer.
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folds among the hills and the trail snaked among them. There was no one around — just a vast wild emptiness unlike any we’d experienced on previous hikes. We walked quickly, trying to stay warm. At noon, with the sun at its highest, we were still chilled. Each of us wore a full set of thermal underwear, a fleece pullover, a thicker fleece jacket and a Gortex outer shell. On our bottom halves, we wore fleece pants, hiking trousers and an outer layer of Gortex pants. We also wore woolen hats (under our hoods), two (sometimes three) pairs of gloves, as well an inner and outer pair of socks inside waterproof boots. The sun continued to shine for a while, before the weather took a sudden turn. The temperature fell and a short squall brought hail and sleet as well as rain. More clouds rolled in from the west, and the afternoon weather settled into an English-style drizzle. With visibility dropping close to zero, we retraced our steps and spent a second chilly night slotted into our bunks in the tool shed.
flights of wooden steps instead of streets. The houses in the colonial area were brightly painted and well-preserved, matching the idealized image of a Greenlandic town we had in our minds. They were, however, surrounded by grim 1960s-style apartment blocks that blight the outskirts of nearly all the larger Greenlandic towns. We spent a week in Sisimiut — a long spell by many people’s standards — but were never bored. We used the time to explore the surrounding area in a series of long hikes. It took only a few minutes to reach the the western end of the Arctic Circle Trail on the edge of town where the road ended and the tundra began. We were again alone on the trail, experiencing isolation and true solitude that’s hard to find in the wilderness areas of North America. The scoopedout valley we hiked along was shadowed to the south by a ridge of snow-tipped peaks that became threatening later in the day as the blue of the sky faded to grey and rain started to spatter down on us. The path we followed was indistinct,
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ean-Marie Zeitouni is excited about his entire first season as music director of the Colorado Music Festival (CMF). “I love them all!” he says of the festival concert programs. “These are all concerts that I’m looking forward to. [Over the summer] you have every single genre, and every single period in music. You have solo works, you have chamber music, you have recitals, you have chamber orchestra and big orchestra — everything is covered.” The festival got underway with Young People’s Concerts June 26 and 27 and an opening concert July 1. The festival now gets going in earnest, with weekly performances of chamber music, pairs of Festival Orchestra concerts Thursdays and Fridays through Aug. 7, and Chamber Orchestra concerts on Sundays through Aug. 9. (All orchestra concerts are at 7:30 p.m. in the Chautauqua Auditorium; chamber music will be at the First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St.) Scattered through the summer are solo recitals by pianist Olga Kern, who wowed CMF audiences two years ago with her performances of the Rachmaninoff concertos ( July 3); Music Mash-Up programs, combining classical and popular material, planned and directed by Steve Hackman ( July 7, 21 and Aug. 4); and a performance by musical humorists Igudesman & Joo (Aug. 1). CMF executive director Andrew Bradford sees the 2015 festival as an opportunity for Zeitouni to come into his own through Courtesy of the Colorado Music Fesival
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the programs he selected. “The really exciting thing about different music directors is that they each have their artistic visions, and no two music directors are alike,” he says. One element Zeitouni brings to the festival is his love of vocal music. The opening concert included vocal works by Ravel and Rossini; later there will be concert performances of Bartók’s oneact opera Bluebeard’s Castle ( July 23 and 24); and the season finale will be a performance of classical vocal and choral works with the CMF Chorus (Aug. 9). Because he has individual tastes and interests, Zeitouni knows that he needs to build a relationship with the CMF audience. “There is a relationship already between this organization and the audience,” he says. “There is a trust there, and (now) a relationship and a trust must be built with me personally, and that takes time.” In addition to what Zeitouni refers to as the three “vocal pillars” of the season, he lists other program priorities. One is the orchestra. “The quality of this group is really special, and it’s a treat to work with them,” he says, noting that programs were often selected to showcase the orchestra. Another priority is the quality of the soloists. “If I look at the singers, they sing at the Met, Covent Garden, La Scala in Milan, the Paris Opera. If I look at the (instrumental) soloists, they are soloists with the Berlin Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony. We have really world class artists.” see CMF Page 30
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Zeitouni also stresses the importance of balance in the programming. In planning the festival, “I work in a spiral,” he says. “We started by having the orchestra be the focus, and then as I go more and more inside of the spiral, it becomes more detailed — to have the right balance between familiar and non-familiar, and to have a good proportion of pianists, strings, vocalists, new works and old works.” One feature of 2015 will be the return of the “mini-festival,” a week of themed concerts that were a staple of CMF in years past. “In talking with patrons last year, one of the requests was for concerts and activities that have a thematic connection,” Bradford says. “That harkens back to the mini-festivals that we’ve done in the past, and it was one of the really brilliant things that [previous music director] Michael [Christie] did.” The 2015 mini-festival will focus on the cello. Falling in the festival’s third week, “Cellobration” (as CMF is calling it) will comprise four programs that cover four different aspects of the instrument: as unaccompanied soloist, as the lead voice in an orchestral work, as soloist in chamber music, and as a concerto soloist. In addition, the orchestral programs will present works that feature the cello section. “Cellobration” kicks off on Tuesday, July 14, with one of the cornerstones of the repertoire, the complete Bach Suites for unaccompanied cello, performed at 4 and 8 p.m. at the First Congregational Church. In the afternoon, CMF principal cellist Bjorn Ranheim will perON THE BILL: Colorado Music Festival, Through Saturday, Aug. 9. form the odd numbered All orchestral concerts at 7:30 p.m. in the suites. After a dinner Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, break, the evening perforBoulder, 303-440-7666. Chamber music concerts at the mance will feature Guy First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Fishman, principal cellist Boulder, 303-442-1787. of Boston’s Handel and Check the complete listing for details: http://www.comusic.org/2015-summer-festival/ Haydn Society, performing the even-numbered suites on Baroque cello. The week’s Festival Orchestra concerts, Thursday and Friday, July 16 and 17, includes Richard Strauss’ tone poem Don Quixote in which the solo cello represents Don Quixote — played by guest artist Desmond Hoebig, former principal cellist of the Cleveland Orchestra. “It’s not only a cello virtuoso piece, it’s also a major orchestra work,” Zeitouni says. “The musical writing in variation form is masterful, definitely, but to me it’s a very dear piece of music as well.” Also on the same program is the Prelude to Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, which opens with cellos alone, and the Second Suite from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. Saturday’s events offer another set of iconic works, the five sonatas for cello and piano by Beethoven, performed by members of the CMF cello section. Three of the sonatas, Nos. 1, 2 and 5, will be performed at 4 p.m., and the remaining two will follow after a dinner break, at 8 p.m. Both performances will be at the First Congregational Church. “Cellobration” concludes at 7:30 p.m. Sunday with a Chamber Orchestra concert, “Classically Cello.” The centerpiece will be Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major with Longmont-native Julie Albers as soloist. The section cellos will get a workout with the Overture to Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, which opens with cellos playing an instantly recognizable theme; Bach’s Third Brandenburg Concerto, with three cello soloists; and Mozart’s “Paris” Symphony. In case that’s not enough cello, the online program hints at a “special encore,” but Bradford will only say, “With regards to figuring out how to showcase the cello, we’ve left no stone unturned.” There are more events in the next few weeks than there is space to write about them: Olga Kern’s solo recital of music by Beethoven, Chopin and Rachmaninoff, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 3, in the Chautauqua Auditorium — the first piano solo recital at CMF since the festival’s early years; the start of the chamber music series at 7:30 p.m. Monday, July 6, with music for piano and strings; and the opening Music Mash-up, “Bartók + Bjork,” Tuesday, July 7. Finally, fans of newer music will enjoy the Festival Orchestra concert Thursday and Friday, July 9 and 10. Under guest conductor David Danzmeyer, the program includes the Colorado premieres of Lee Actor’s Opening Remarks and Michael Daugherty’s piano concerto Deus ex Machina, winner of three Grammy awards in 2011, plus Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. The soloist for Daugherty will be Terrence Wilson, for whom the concerto was written. Daugherty, who combines popular Americana — Elvis, Superman, Star Trek — with skillful, well constructed music, will be present for the concert and give a pre-concert talk at 6:30 p.m. on the Auditorium Terrace. Boulder Weekly
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Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers released their 14th studio album, One Lost Day, June 2.
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After 30 years together, the Indigo Girls are still recalibrating by Caitlin Rockett
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ore than three decades ago, when Amy Ray began penning emotionally charged songs about social justice as one-half of the folk rock duo the Indigo Girls, fighting for same sex marriage wasn’t high on her list of priorities — despite being a lesbian. “There were other issues I wanted to work on [at the time] that had to do with homeless queer youth and drug addiction and transgender issues within the community that I felt were more import to me,” Ray said during a phone interview. “But over the last few years I was like, ‘I was wrong about that.’ [The effect of marriage equality] does trickle down, it does seep into other issues, it does change the tone of the times, it does affect financial issues and socioeconomic issues in the queer community.” When Ray called to chat with Boulder Weekly, the U.S. Supreme Court had yet to rule that same sex couples could marry nationwide — that would happen eight days later. But like most people, Ray could see the future. And it looked bright. “That house of cards, that... anti-gay, reactionary, kind of fearful house is falling,” Ray said. “All these people scrambling to say the Supreme Court’s not the
final word... but it’s happening and everyone is going to have to accept it.” As the Georgia native got older and formed a family of her own, Ray said she started to see what marriage equality could do for civil rights in the broader queer community. “Any slight incremental change in how people see any gay issue is good for all these issues,” Ray said. “Now I feel like it’s all linked. ... That’s the beautiful thing about activism — you always learn. You always have to be open so that you can be wrong about your priorities. That’s what I love about being immersed in activism ... if you can stay in that open space you can learn from it.” Within that statement is perhaps the perfect summation of what the Indigo Girls have built their career around: selfreflection and social action. With the release of their 14th studio album, One Lost Day, the Indigo Girls continue to build on that foundation, serving up poignant, soulful journeys that take listeners across North America, through stories of exquisite first love, the other side of sorrow and the ravages of addiction. Interwoven among the stories are undeniable themes of inequity — derived from race, poverty and gender
— that show the Indigo Girls continue to reside in that “open space” of activism Ray speaks of. “Some things you just can’t ignore,” Ray said. Take, for example, mass incarceration. Back in 2007, Ray received a letter from Herman Wallace, one of the “Angora Three,” who each spent three decades or more in solitary confinement in Louisiana State Penitentiary (often called Angola Prison) after the killing of a prison guard in 1972. No physical evidence linking the men to the crime was ever brought forward and the testimony of the primary eyewitness was discredited. In his letter, Wallace quoted lyrics from Indigo Girls songs and spoke of the new breed of racism in America — what sociologist Loic Wacquant has called the “hyperincarceration” of black men. Ray said Wallace’s letter left her paralyzed with disbelief, unable to express her thoughts. It took years, but for the new album Ray penned “The Rise of the Black Messiah” as a battle cry against America’s industrial prison complex and the racism it enables. “My friend I heard you tell of slavery’s end, but have you heard of mass incarceration?” Ray sings. “And that ol’ Jim Crow, Boulder Weekly
overtones he just keeps getting born with a new hanging rope for the black man’s scourge. Hey ol’ Man River, what do you know of that plantation they call Angola? The devil spawned a prison there — the saddest farm that ever lived.” For Ray, the creation of the song was no small matter, even after years of penning songs that question social mores and status quo. “Over time you can’t take it lightly and dash off another song about mass incarceration or just another folk song,” Ray said. “You just write out of honesty. Sometimes that’s a song that’s very stridently activist and some times it’s gonna be a love song.” And One Lost Day isn’t without love songs, like the opening track “Elizabeth,” where fellow Indigo Girl Emily Saliers reminisces, without sadness, about the beauty of a young (seemingly unrealized) love against the vibrant, historic backdrop of New Orleans (where Saliers, who is also openly gay, spent two years attending Tulane University). Or on “Southern California is Your Girlfriend,” a song about two people from extremely different backgrounds engaged in what will ultimately be a doomed romance. The band also explores sorrow’s role in human development, the confines of a small town and the devastation a natural disaster wreaks on a small coal-mining town in Canada. Despite the album’s varied subject matter, the overall theme comes across as a reflection on the past and the lessons we learn — or perhaps should have learned — as we weather life’s trials and tribulations. In that reflection, the album often champions growth over rumination. “I don’t want to look you up, I’m pretty sure it’s just enough to remember you fondly,” Saliers sings in “Elizabeth.” For Ray and Saliers, who have been performing together since they were high schoolers in Decatur, Georgia in 1985, there’s been plenty to focus on without lingering on the “what ifs” and “could have beens” of the past. Saliers married her longtime partner Tristin Chipman in 2013, and both Indigo Girls are new parents — Saliers and Chipman to 2-and-a-half-year-old daughter Cleo, while Ray and her partner, Carrie Schrader, are busy raising their 20-month-old daughter Ozilline Graydon. And as a consequence of the rapid pace of life, it’s been four years since the Indigo Girls released their last studio album, Beauty Queen Sister. When they decided it was time to get back in the studio, Ray and Saliers sought the guidance of a new producer, Nashvillebased Jordan Hamlin. For Ray, the choice Boulder Weekly
to work with Hamlin came as a result of hearing Hamlin’s work on indie folk songwriter Lucy Wainright Roche’s latest LP, There’s a Last Time For Everything, which Ray said was the “best record Lucy’s made — so creative and so visionary.” Hamlin, unlike other producers the band has worked with, was a fan of the Indigo Girls prior to working with them. She is also, in Ray’s words, “much younger” than Ray and Saliers. “She’s of a generation that’s more digital. The way she works is more send
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stuff over email and do mockups in ProTools and Garage Band and sort of play all the instruments yourself,” Ray said — a method that was new to a band that has always done pre-production work in person. But, always true to their foundation of self-reflection, the band readjusted and learned new ways of working in order to push their boundaries. And Ray admitted it might have been a little tough for her at times. “I can be very combative. I can say
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f there’s one thing composer Steven Hackman wants Peter musicologist will tell you andthe Wolf you to know about his growing collection of “mash- 6.26that’s incredibly diffi& 6.27an| 10am yourpiece childrento to aanalyze, fun up” compositions — where he joins celebrated master Bringcult to introduction to classical music as Music works from classical artists like Brahms seamlessly execute, to understand. Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni leads the It’s Orchestra in the Festival’s annual with works from contemporary pop culture gods like CMFhis masterpiece,” Hackman says. “Björk of course... these Young People’s Concerts, featuring Radiohead — it’s that this is no gimmick. Rather, it’s are no traditional pop songs. Her music is extremely intriLOCAL Theater Company in Prokofiev’s work that flows from a fundamental part of who he is. cate, rhythmically modally complex. The productions timeless classic, Peter and theand Wolf! “I think when people view my work, at least these are dense. I knew that going in, but when it’s day one and mash-ups, I think they get scared because they think it’s a Seasonyou open up the score, it’sATpretty daunting.” TICKETS Sponsor Gordon and substitute for presenting a regular classical concert,” Hackman chose to work with AUDITORIUM material from CHAUTAUQUA BOULDER Grace Gamm Hackman says. “Nowhere am I trying to say you should Björk’s first three major label studio albums: 1993’s never listen to Brahms’ first symphony just how it is, or Debut; 1995’s Post, which featured the now-classic the Bartók Concerto for Orchestra — I’m hoping that peosongs “Army of Me,” “It’s Oh So Quiet” and the critiple want to go listen to it from hearing my piece. I cercally acclaimed “Hyperballad”; and 1997’s Homogenic, tainly hope these pieces are effective in gaining new audiwhich many who came of age in the ’90s might ences, that maybe they can be what a music class in secremember for its surreal Michel Gondry-directed video for “Bachelorette.” ond grade was to somebody or what Hooked on Classics It may seem at first blush that the works from was for someone else.” Icelandic-born Björk (born in 1965) and Hungarian Hackman has formed a career of making classical native Bartók (who died in 1945) are quite different music appealing to a new generation, primarily through the significant hand he’s played in developing a new musi- — perhaps too different to fuse. But for Hackman the cal landscape forged from the integration of classical and similarities between the two artists were unmistakable. popular repertoire. He showcases his genre-blending style “I think Björk and Bartók explore very extreme as the creative director of the FUSE series at the ranges of emotion in their music, ranging from sublime Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and has worked extento terrifying. Their palette of colors and tambour is also sively with fellow mash-up aficionados Time for Three. extreme, and just so avant garde and so creative,” Hackman is also the music director of the Colorado Hackman says. “You think of Björk’s albums and there’s Music Festival’s Music Mash-Up Series. He will lead the one that’s almost all vocal, now she’s got a brass choir. CMF Orchestra for the third summer in a row as they Any sound you can think of, I feel like she’s willing to kick off the Mash-Up Series on July 7 with an original interface with that sound. Bartók’s Concerto for Hackman composition fusing Bela Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, as you could gather from that title, he’s lookOrchestra with select works from Icelandic pop icon Björk’s ing to showcase what the instruments of the orchestra first three albums. are capable of, not only as soloists and individual entiAnd while Hackman’s fusions have never pulled from ties, but collectively. I thought the colorfulness and what anyone would call simplistic source materials, he says kind of that brilliant avant-garde nature of these artists this particular work was especially challenging. made them right for this.” “The source material is the most complicated and Indeed, both artists are known for their eclectic, dense and challenging from the start — just the Bartók exploratory musical styles. Bartók is famous for his use of Concerto for Orchestra, any orchestral player or conductor or Eastern European folk songs in his original compositions
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(and as such, is a founder of modern ethnomusicology), while Björk’s music might aptly be described as genre agnostic, exploring electronic, rock, hip-hop and even classical styles in her catalog. During the Bartók and Björk mash-up, singers Malia Civetz, Carla Kihlstedt and Kristin Slipp will join the CMF Orchestra. And while it was tricky finding vocalists for the program, Hackman says his intent wasn’t to find singers who could emulate Björk’s singular vocal style. “My key is finding someone who is an artist in their own right, has their own individual sound, has the musicianship to handle this kind of complex repertoire,” Hackman says. When the CMF Orchestra takes the stage at Chautauqua Auditorium on July 7 for the Bartók + Björk show, it might be hard to believe the orchestra has had only two days to rehearse as a group — a total of five hours on the mornings of July 5 and July 7. “It’s pretty intense,” Hackman says. “And it’s crazy for a premiere like this. You need time to put the Bartók Concerto together by itself, and then you’ve got all these twists and turns.” For the other two concerts of the Mash-Up Series, Hackman will lead an updated version of his Copland and Bon Iver mash-up, which will feature Fort Collins-based band SHEL, and finish the series with musician Storm Large and her show “The Crazy Arc of Love.” “This is my third summer with these musicians and each summer they’ve gained more understanding of where I’m coming from,” Hackman says. “I’m really glad we’ve got kind of a relationship going on now. I just think it’s going to be an adventure. It already has been with the writing but now putting this together, it’s going to be really fun.”
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Music Arthur Lee Land. 6:30 p.m. Sandstone Park, 301 Railroad Ave., Lyons. Bill McKay. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Bluegrass Jam. 6:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767. Boulder Swing Collective. 9 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Brian Parton. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park), 1898 S. Flatiron Court, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Dan Harris and Fast Eddy Duo. 7 p.m. Larry’s Guitar Shop, 508 Fifth Ave., Longmont, 720-340-4169.
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Wednesday, July 8, 8 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095 Blitzen Trapper’s brand of alternative country music is an ideal soundtrack for warm summer nights. The band specializes in a sound that straddles the line between somber and mellow. Currently touring ahead of a yet-to-be-named eighth studio album, coming out this September, Blitzen Trapper is touring throughout the Northwest and West this summer. From slide guitar to harmonicas and banjos, the band will provide a healthy dose of Americana both in its musical stylings and its appearance — the Blitzen Trapper dress code seems to include long hair, bushy beards and a healthy dose of flannel. — Sam Routhier
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Just Sayin’. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Mary Scholz. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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The Missing Parts. 8 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Narrow Guage. 5 p.m. Boulder Beer Company, 2880 Wilderness Place, Boulder, 303-444-8448. Open Bluegrass Pick. 8:30 p.m. Under the Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-927-6921. Thumpin’. 6 p.m. Twenty Ninth Street Mall, 1710 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0722.
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Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Summer Writing Program: The Braided River: Activist Rhizome Week 1: Disparities, Exigencies, Identity, Lineage Week 2: Who Am I When I Dream?: Philo-poetics Week 3: The Activist Rhizome Week 4: Sangha, Cross Worlds, Common Ground The Summer Writing Program is a four-week-long convocation of students, poets, fiction writers, scholars, translators, performance artists, activist, Buddhist teachers, musicians, printers, editors, and others working in small press publishing. Programming includes workshops, lectures, panels, readings, special events, and more!
Umphrey’s McGee. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. Events An Altered Reality’ Altered Books and Secret Lives. 6 p.m. StudioC, 4944C Pearl St., Boulder, 720-206-7325. Awe-Struck’s Thursday Night Farm Dinner at Sol y Sombra. 6:30 p.m. Sol y Sambra, 75th Street and Highway 66, Boulder, 303-618-3510. Boulder County Sunset Hike. 6:30 p.m. Bald Mountain Scenic Area, 4241 Sunshine Canyon Drive, Boulder, 303-678-6200. Boulder Road Runners Summer Track Series 2015. 6 p.m. Potts Track Field at CU Boulder, University of Colorado, Boulder. Club de Literatura en Español. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. GohDoh Story Club. 4 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Ignite Boulder. 6 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Lap Babies. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.
A Taste of Art Competition Exhibition. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through July 12.
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Alec Soth: Colorado Dispatch. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Nov. 29. Ansel Adams: Matsterworks. Foothills Art Center, 809 15th St., Golden, 303-279-3922. Through Aug. 30. Barbara Bosworth: Quiet Wonder. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Sept. 20. Conscious and Unconscious: Subjects of the Real & Surreal. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Aug. 30. Contemporary Photography by Marc Bernardi. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through July 31. Flatlander. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122. Through Sept. 13.
In Conscious and Unconscious: Subjects of the Real & Surreal artists explore various themes like John Bonath’s “The Kiss.”
Oils on Canvas by Betsy Cole. Community Art Program Gallery, NCAR, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-497-1174. Through July 31.
The Secret Life of Fruits and Vegetables. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through July 12.
Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 10, 2016.
Showing Off. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver, 720-865-5000. Through Jan. 3, 2016.
Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company (Lee Hill), 1501 Lee Hill Road, Suite 20, Boulder, 508-873-9185. Dean Himes. 6:30 p.m. Lunada’s Eatery & Cantina, 400 W. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-612-7315.
Many Mountains. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993. Mark Diamond. 9 p.m. License No. 1, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344. Mitchell and the Mangrove. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.
An Evening with Olga Kern. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.
Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids Longmont. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Silent Disco. 12 p.m. Free Motion Dance Center, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
Honey Tree Duo. 5:30 p.m. Vindication Brewing Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Suite F, Boulder, 303-530-0642.
Sydow, Scott, and Clark. 8 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-550-7813.
Story Club in Motion. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.
Hotfoot. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
Tim Ostdiek. 6:30 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.
Summer Writing Program Public Readings/ Performance. 7:30 p.m. Naropa University, Performing Arts Center, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-444-0202.
The Hunters. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847.
Open Mic Comedy Night. 8:30 p.m. The Riverside, 1724 Broadway, Boulder, 720-443-2322. Preparing for Divorce: What You Need To Know. 7 p.m. Iris Office Park, 3775 Iris Ave., Suite 5, Boulder.
Terry Crook Pottery and Gary Vigen Glass Painting. 10 a.m. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683. Toddler Time. 9:15 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Friday, July 3
Idlewhile. 7 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Intuit. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Jamie Lunde and Eben Grace. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues CHUBurger, 1225 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-2482.
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JC and the Deadly Sins. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
Aaron English. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
Jeff Brinkman. 9 p.m. LOCAL eat + drink, 432 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-2472.
Andrew Wynne. 6 p.m. Modmarket, 700 Ken Pratt Blvd., Suite 100, Longmont, 720-494-1655.
Johnny O Band. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Bonnie Lowdermilk. 7 p.m. Sun Rose Cafe, 379 Main St., Longmont, 303-651-3533.
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Espresso! Gypsy Jazz. 7 p.m. Caffe Sole, 637R S. Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.
Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
The Blue Rider. 9 p.m. Stage Stop, 60 Main St., Rollinsville, 303-258-0649.
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Brian Rezac. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Citizen Dan. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.
Kort McCumber. 6 p.m. The Roost, 526 Main St., Longmont, 303-827-3380. Louisville Street Faire with Dark. 5 p.m. Steinbaugh Pavilion, 824 Front St., Louisville, 303449-3137. M Squared. 8:30 p.m. Under the Sun, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-927-6921.
Timber. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Torbin Hadlock. 6 p.m. Very Nice Brewing Company, 20 Lakeview Drive, Unit 112, Nederland, 303-258-3770. Truckstop Honeymoon. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues CyclHOPS, 600 S. Airport Road, Longmont, 303-776-BIKE. The Wallpaper House Band. 6:30 p.m. Eclectic Cafe, 917 Front St., Louisville, 303-665-9761. Wild Mountain Celts. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993. Events Family Game Night. 4:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead. 6 p.m. Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0583. Minecrafternoons at Meadows. 3:30 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. New Works by Peter Burega. 2 p.m. Smithklein Gallery, 1116 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-7200. see EVENTS Page 40
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Old’s Cool Rock. 10 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont, 303-678-6235.
Thursday, July 2 Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp — Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. “So, You’re a Poet” Open Poetry Reading. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Tuesday, July 7 James Harris. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Sweet Mary Jane — Karin Lazarus. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Innisfree Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Wednesday, July 8 How to Travel the World on $50 a Day — Matt Kepnes. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.
Ultralowfi. 3 p.m. Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company, 297 U.S. 287, Lafayette, 720-550-7813. Watersong. 8:30 p.m. The Speakeasy, 301 Main St., Longmont, 720-684-4728. Events Anthony Grant: Living Color. All day. pARTiculars Art Gallery and Teaching Studio, 401 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 720-890-7888. Boulder Art and Jazz Festival. 10 a.m. Pearl Street Mall, Pearl St., Boulder, 303-990-9177. Celebrate July 4th. 4 p.m. Waneka Lake, 1600 Caria Drive, Lafayette, 303-673-9124. Ecstatic Dance. 10 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.
If you’re hankering for some new weed-filled recipes, head to the Boulder Book Store for Karin Lazarus’ new book Sweet Mary Jane.
The Endurance House Longmont Half and 5K. 6 a.m. McIntosh Lake at Dawson Park, Lakeshore Drive, Longmont, 303-776-6050.
Bluegrass Pick. 12 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead. 6 p.m. Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0583.
Blues and BBQ and Eef. 2 p.m. The Dickens Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.
Fleet Feet Sports Nordic Walking Class. 8:30 a.m. Fleet Feet Sports Boulder, 2624 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-939-8000. Nederland Old Fashion Fireworks and Festival. 12 a.m. Guerico Ball Field, First St., Nederland. Ralphie’s Independence Day Blast. 8 p.m. Folsom Field, 2400 Colorado Ave., Boulder, 303-492-8900. Summer Writing Program Public Readings/Performance. 5:30 p.m. Naropa University, Performing Arts Center, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-444-0202. Terry Crook Pottery and Gary Vigen Glass Painting. 10 a.m. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683. Sunday, July 5
Craig Cornett and Craig Naylon: BBQ & Tunes. 12 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ The Shack, 237 Collyer St., Longmont, 720-999-4099. David Coile. 10 a.m. The Stone Cup, 442 High St., Lyons, 303-823-2345. Elise Wunder. 12 p.m. Left Hand Brewery, Pikes Ave., Longmont, 303-772-0258. Friends of Jazz. 1 p.m. Boulder Elks Lodge, 3975 28th St., Boulder, 303-442-5003. The Great American Sing-Along. 3 p.m. Westview Presbyterian Church, 1500 Hover St., Longmont, 303-776-3242. Jefferson Washington Band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.
Music
John Two-Hawks. 2:30 p.m. Unity of Boulder Spiritual Center, 2855 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-442-1411.
Andrew Bonnis. 3 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
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Radiate Unified Dance Party with DJ Mr. Getdowne. 8:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.
Truckstop Honeymoon. 4:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.
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Papa Juke. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.
Running Out of Road. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Co., 3201 Walnut St., Suite A, Boulder, 970-708-4067.
events
Around the world in $50 (a day) How to Travel the World on $50 a Day — Matt Kepnes. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 8, Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. After visiting more than 75 countries, Matthew Kepnes has picked up a few tricks of the trade. And now Kepnes is sharing his knowhow in his book How to Travel the World on $50 a Day.
Courtesy of Matthew Kepnes
In 2003, Kepnes fell in love with travel after a trip to Costa Rica. He then soon after decided to leave his job and take a year off to explore the world. “I like the freedom travel gives,” Kepnes says. “You can do what you want when you want. I like the newness of everything. It’s always interesting and different. It keeps life exciting.” Kepnes has been travelling extensively ever since — saying he likes to live large and travel cheap. Always a frugal person, Kepnes says traveling cheaply isn’t always about saving money but also about avoiding tourist traps for a more genuine experience. “It’s about trying to find value when you travel — finding the offbeaten path and getting off the commercialized travel route, where all the tourists are,” he says. “It’s about being able to find deals and knowing where to look so you get more of the local environment.”
With years of travelling under his belt, Kepnes hits the Boulder Book Store to share his wisdom.
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events
theater
Courtesy of BDT Stage
Aladdin. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through July 25. Brighton Beach Memoirs. Miner’s Alley Theatre, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-9353044. Through June 28. Children of Eden. Jester’s Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-682-9980. Through July 12. Mary Poppins. BDT Stage, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Sept. 5. Much Ado About Nothing. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado Campus, Boulder, 303-492-8008, Through Aug. 8. Othello. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado Campus, Boulder, 303-492-8008, Through Aug. 9. The Spitfire Grill. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora, 303-856-7830. Through Aug. 16. Wicked. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through July 5.
Beloved nanny Mary Poppins pops in at BDT Stage through Sept. 16. Wittenberg. Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, University of Colorado Campus, Boulder, 303492-8008, Through Aug. 8.
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Laurie Dameron. 5 p.m. Gold Hill Inn, 401 Main St., Boulder, 303-443-6461. Left Hand Artist Group Showcase. 12 p.m. Georgia Boys BBQ The Shack, 237 Collyer St., Longmont, 720-999-4099. The Mighty Twisters. 1:30 p.m. Boulder Jazz Festival, Pearl Street Mall, Boulder, 303-990-9177. Molly Kollier and Cancellieri. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Music in the Yard with Danny Shafer. 11 a.m. The Post Brewing Company, 105 W. Emma St., Lafayette, 303-593-2066. Salem. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886. Traditional Irish Session. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922. Truckstop Honeymoon. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Events Boulder Art and Jazz Festival. 10 a.m. Pearl Street Mall, Pearl St., Boulder, 303-990-9177. Boulder Wine Reads. 4 p.m. Settembre Cellars Winery & Tasting Room, 1501 Lee Hill, Unit 16, Boulder, 303-532-1892. Dances With Branches Recreational Tree Climbing. 12:30 p.m. Waneka Lake Park, 1600 Caria Drive, Lafayette, 303-673-9124. Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead. 6 p.m. Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-444-0583. Go Club for Kids and Teens. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Hawaiian Hula Classes. 5 p.m. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772. No Ropes Universal Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Trident Booksellers and Cafe, 940 Pearl St., Boulder, 303443-3133. PhotoJAM. 7 p.m. Lyons Cinema and Photography Art Center, 442 High St., Suite 2, Lyons, 303-910-2236. Terry Crook Pottery and Gary Vigen Glass Painting. 11 a.m. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683. Wildflowers of Caribou Ranch. 9 a.m. Caribou Ranch Open Space, Nederland, 303-678-6200. 42 July 2, 2015
Monday, July 6 Music Andrew Oakley Duo. 9 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768. Boulder Concert Band Summer Parks Concert. 7 p.m. Chautauqua Park, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Cranford Hallow. 10 p.m. Southern Sun Pub & Brewery, 627 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886. Electric Blues Jam. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Nosferatu. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282. Open Jovan. 6 p.m. Jamestown Mercantile Cafe, 108 Main St., Jamestown, 303-442-5847. Open Mic. 8 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884. Piano Chamber Music. 7:30 p.m. First Congregational Church of Boulder, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-442-1787. Praire Scholars. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914. Prospect Sound Bites with Buckner Funken Jazz. 5 p.m. Prospect Park, 700 Tenacity Drive, Longmont, 303-459-5467. Youth Truth and Talent Show. 7:30 p.m. The Nomad Theater, 1410 Quince Ave., Boulder, 303-443-7510. Events Arabic Literature. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. BCCRN Free Film Series. 7 p.m. Adi Shiki Yoga Center, 6717 Valmont Road, Boulder, 720-252-3962. Citizenship Classes. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Colorado Shakespeare Festival Lecture Series. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. DivorceCare. 7 p.m. New Creation Church, 737 Bross St., Longmont, 303-776-4225. Pages and Paws. 3:45 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Boulder Weekly
events Terry Crook Pottery and Gary Vigen Glass Painting. 10 a.m. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683.
Hot Tomatoes. 6:30 p.m. Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-651-8374.
Toddlers and Board Books. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.
House of Joy (With Students). 12 p.m. Festival Plaza, 311 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-5588 x 1265.
Tuesday, July 7
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. 9 p.m. Chautauqua Auditorium, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-442-3282.
Music Bluegrass Pick. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Brewery, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Chain Station, Old Town Pickers. 8 p.m. Fox Theatre Boulder, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Folk Dancing for Children. 6:15 p.m. Boulder Municipal Plaza, 1770 13th St., Boulder. Open Mic. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Co., 3201 Walnut St., Suite A, Boulder, 970-708-4067. Open Mic. 9 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733. Paakow’s Trio. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Stephen Brooks Trio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628. Terry Crook Pottery and Gary Vigen Glass Painting. 10 a.m. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683. Events Boulder Genealogical Society Monthly Meeting. 6:30 p.m. Frasier Meadows Sky Lounge, 350 Ponca Place, Fifth Floor, Boulder, 303-499-4888. Boulder Valley Adobe User Group. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group. 10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390. Camera Movement: Dollies, Sliders and Jibs. 9 a.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647. Connie Elstun presents: Super-Rabbit and the Magic Adventures of the Hero Hares. 11 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Kort McCumber. 6:30 p.m. St Julien Hotel and Spa, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Many Mountains. 6 p.m. Espresso Vino by Brewing Market, 2770 Dagny Way, Lafayette, 720-890-3993. No One Cares String Band. 10 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-777-6768.
Cosmology and Modern Physics. 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100. Craft Story Club. 4 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.
Bands on the Bricks with The Country Music Project. 7 p.m. Pearl Street Mall and Courthouse Lawn, 1300 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-3774. Blitzen Trapper. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre Boulder, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095. Blues Jam. 10 p.m. Pioneer Inn, 15 E. First St., Nederland, 303-258-7733.
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The Foundation: Basic Financial Literacy for Young People. 1 p.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-4390.
Open Hack for Youth with Coder Dojo. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303441-3100.
Music
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Sign On (Sign Language Class). 6 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Coffeehouse
Paper Moonshine. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.
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Open Mic Night. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.
Introduction to 3D Printing. 2 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.
Reynolds Reading Pals. 4:30 p.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.
STREET
Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s Traditional Irish Pub, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.
Folk Dancing on the Plaza. 7 p.m. Boulder Municipal Plaza, 1770 13th St., Boulder.
Marketing with Social Media. 6 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 1600 Range St., Suite 100, Boulder, 303-800-4647.
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The Rotary Club of Longmont St. Vrain. 7 a.m. First Lutheran Church, 803 Third Ave., Longmont, 303-776-2704. Summer Writing Program Public Readings/Performance. 7:30 p.m. Naropa University, Performing Arts Center, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-4440202. Terry Crook Pottery and Gary Vigen Glass Painting. 10 a.m. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683. Toddler Lego Story Club. 10:15 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120. Trivia Night. 8:30 p.m. Waterloo, 809 Main St., Louisville, 303-993-2094. Washi Dress Class. 1 p.m. Fabricate, 2023 17th St., Boulder, 303-997-8245. Wednesday Fun Run. 6 p.m. Boulder Running Company, 28th Street and Pearl Street, Boulder, 800-807-6179. Winey Women and Burying Your Past. 6 p.m. StudioC, 4944C Pearl St., Boulder, 720-206-7325. July 2, 2015 43
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Dope will get you high
When nerdy kid Malcolm (Shameik Moore) and his friends, Diggy (Kiersey Clemons) and Jib (Tony Revolori), find themselves at a drug dealer’s birthday party, things go south in a hurry.
by Ryan Syrek
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’m not going to take any chances by coming at this in clever fashion: Go see Dope. See it now. See it and reward filmmakers speaking truth for passionately reminding us that unique and original voices are the soul of cinema. If Jurassic World is how the industry makes its living, Dope is what it lives for. It doesn’t matter whether or not the characters in the film look like you or the setting is familiar to your experiences. You’ll either relate to it firsthand or love the shit out of it secondhand. Either way, Dope is for you. Yes, you. Dope is set in the present day, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at Malcolm (Shameik Moore). Rocking a hi-top fade and leftovers from the factory that used to make Hammer-pants, Malcolm is as obsessed with ’90s-era hip-hop as he is with getting into Harvard. That latter obsession isn’t a common one in Inglewood, California, where gangsters stealing your shoes at school is considered an average day. Malcolm is lucky to have two BFFs: Diggy (Kiersey Clemons), a whip-smart lesbian, and Jib (Tony Revolori), who gets to use the N-word because he’s 14 percent black according to Ancestry.com. When the stunning Nakia (Zoë Kravitz) invites Malcolm to a birthday party for her on-again/off-again, dopeslinging boyfriend, Dom (A$ap Rocky), the nerdy good kids find themselves wading hip deep into shit creek. Malcolm gets stuck with a backpack full of molly and finds himself confronted with gangbangers, drug-dealing kingpins and the Internet’s black market. Yes, you read that last one right; Dope is the first movie to make Bitcoins a plot point.
Writer/director Rick Famuyiwa’s movie is goddamn invigorating. From Malcolm’s self-awareness to Diggy’s playful elaboration on the parameters of who can drop N-bombs without consequence, Dope is, above all else, smart. It’s also fearless, as Famuyiwa ignores convention and bobs and weaves through various genres in the span of a single scene. Dope hilariously satirizes the “black witness” on local news, skewers stereotypical expectations and is likely the funniest movie I’ve seen so far this year. Ambitious filmmaking gets sloppy sometimes. The Nakia/Malcolm relationship isn’t just woefully underdeveloped, it’s laughably nonexistent, so revisiting that in the conclusion felt decidedly wrong. What makes it worse is that Famuyiwa has a fist-pumping, micdropping moment not five minutes before that, as Malcolm delivers his Harvard admission essay in something that resembles spoken word poetry and ends on a high-note so palpable that the small crowd I was with erupted. Ending on that note would have been epic. Still, we have come here to praise Dope, not to bury it. Give me a joyful, genuine piece of cinematic fiction with a few warts over calculated filmmakingby-numbers any day of the week. Jampacked with fantastic characters and performances, a soundtrack that may jockey with Guardians of the Galaxy’s for bragging rights and thoughtful social commentary, Dope made my heart hurt I loved it so much. So please, see it — see it right now. This review first appeared in The Reader of Omaha, Neb.
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film [Ir]replaceable you
Three faces in the ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’ by Michael J. Casey
In Clouds of Sils Maria, Juliette Binoche plays an acclaimed actress who’s learning she might have an expiration date in the movie biz.
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f Jean-Luc Godard was correct when he surmised, “The history of cinema is the story of men filming women,” then the French auteur Olivier Assayas’s latest, Clouds of Sils Maria, adds the crucial word missing from that epigraph: young. The cinema is unkind to actresses of a certain age, replacing them with younger, newer models, forcing them from the spotlight to make way for tomorrow. That is not something Maria ( Juliette Binoche), a renowned actress of the stage and screen, is ready to do. Twenty years ago, Maria’s career was catapulted to fame when she starred as Sigrid in Wilhelm Melchior’s play, Maloja Snake, about an older woman, Helen, who falls in love with a young secretary at her office, Sigrid, and is driven to suicide by her rejection. Maria — now the age of the Helen character — returns to Zurich to present Melchior with a lifetime achievement award. But Melchior dies while en route and the ceremony is quickly turned into a tribute where Maria doesn’t ON THE BILL: congratulate Melchior, she eulogizes him. Clouds of Sils Maria. Despite her immediate concerns, the affair is a July 7 – 11, The Boedecker success, bringing a healthy shine back to Maria. Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7825. Trying to capitalize on this moment, a young Tickets start at $6 at stage director, Klaus (Lars Eidinger) pitches www.thedairy.org. Maria a role: re-stage Maloja Snake with Maria as Helen instead of Sigrid. Maria scoffs at the idea, but, with a little prodding from her personal assistant, Valentine (Kristen Stewart), she begins to realize her career choices are dwindling. Maria accepts the role, and moves into Melchior’s Sils Maria home to rehearse and prepare with Valentine. The men of Sils Maria see Maria as an actress approaching her sell-by date — uncomfortable but true. Compounding the notion of “old” in movies, where actresses are treated as sexual objects first and a woman/mother/sister/child second, Maria is in her 40s, but Binoche is 51. It is of no coincidence that Klaus wants to cast Jo-Ann (Chloë Grace Moretz) as the new Sigrid — a young, sexually and emotionally out of control actress, carrying on an affair with a married man. It is no coincidence that Assayas casts Moretz, an actress who has toed the Lolita line ever since starring as the foul-mouthed Kick-Ass assassin at the age of 13. Assayas, either knowingly or not, is doing a bang-up job channeling Dazed and Confused’s Wooderson, “I get older; they stay the same age.” But where Wooderson was full of charm and good humor, Assayas is tragically serious. He holds up a mirror to an actress, a mirror of another sort, and Assayas gets desperately lost in the endless series of duplicates. Thankfully, he has Binoche, Stewart and Moretz to pull him out of it. While Assayas is busy naval-gazing, the three actresses manage to snatch Clouds of Sils Maria away from him — keeping the focus where it ought to be in the first place. Boulder Weekly
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THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE English National Opera July 5 - 1:00 | July 8 - 1:00
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t’s prime rib night at the tavern. There’s a happy murmur in the dining room, likely because it’s the kind of place where you can get a fat prime rib and baked potato for ten bucks on a Monday night. The prime rib special is about community. I have driven into the night on some interstate countless times, headed for some easy weekend retreat, and popped into an Al’s or a Roadside or a Moonlight, finding a cheerful community, switching booths, chatting up neighbors and laughing at playful waitress sass. In the corner are some young jocks in varsity jackets, while a dad takes his kids around the salad bar, filling up their plates with Jell-O and whipped cream, and old, starchy men in regional hats sip digestive coffee. The case at Niwot Tavern is no different. A table of eight Asian businessmen laugh during a round of beers. Three 30-something waitresses in aprons hustle around the dining room with sweaty pitchers and wet bill tickets. Stag men at the bar watch the Giants smack a few homers off the Rockies. Young couples sit in fading light on the patio. It’s prime rib night at the tavern. Whether it’s Monday night, Friday night or Sunday breakfast, the linchpin to these gatherings always seems to be the discount prime rib — a versatile hunk of meat that shows up on diner menus, and
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by Matt Cortina expensive steakhouse menus alike. The quality of the diner variety has a much wider range than what you’ll find for upwards of $90 at Delmonico’s. Some slabs are stringy with fat, while others are overcooked or too thin. But some diner prime ribs break out — achieving a quality that, in proportion, rivals anything you can get at some fancy steakhouse. I’m happy to report that the prime rib at Niwot Tavern fell into the latter category. The prime rib starts at 8 ounces, with $2 per extra ounce. I opted for a 10-ounce piece of meat, medium rare with a baked potato and a side of green beans. The prime rib was about an inch and a half thick and roughly the shape and length of a small Dutch boy’s wooden dancing clog. The outer
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As the Fourth of July approaches, so does the trouble of deciding what to do on this happening weekend. Beyond the sights of the grill in your backyard and excessive use of sparklers, Boulder County will be offering a number of food-based events for this upcoming Fourth of July celebration. This Fourth (and fifth) of July, Downtown Boulder will be hosting their second annual Boulder Art and JazzFest on the Pearl Street Mall between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. This weekend-long event will be offering lots of food, brews and live music all day, including Tommy Thomas, Mark Diamond and Hazel Miller. There will also be a beer garden filled with booze from the state’s finest breweries. The festival will also be hosting more than 100 artists, featuring local artisans and musicians from Colorado. This event is free for the public to attend, and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to Helping the Children of Rwanda & Uganda. Boulder County will host food events this Fourth of July. For more information you can visit the Boulder JazzFest website, www.boulderjazzfest.com/index. Join a bevy of local sponsors at the Boulder Those who are trying to work up an appetite on their Reservoir on the fourth for the Star Spangled Splash. You’ll get Fourth of July will have no problem doing so this year. The to enjoy beer, margaritas and food from FATE Brewing Endurance House in Longmont will be offering a half maraCompany, as well as the sweet treat of shaved ice from Kona thon and a 5K race series. This will be the Endurance House’s Ice. Event runs from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., and if you feel like runfifth annual half marathon at Dawson Park’s McIntosh Lake in ning off all that beer, you can register for an endurance runLongmont. It will cost contestants $75 to register for the half ning event. marathon and $45 for the 5K, but kids between the ages of If you’re in Lafayette for Independence Day, head out to 10 and 16 receive $10 off and groups of 5 or more who sign the Fourth of July celebration at Waneka Lake Park. There, up on the same online transaction will receive $5 off per peryou’ll find a bunch of food and drink options, including a son. For more information on good deals, apparel and sponbeer and wine garden powered by The Post Brewing Co. and sors visit the event’s website at www.lmhalf.com. the fine folks at Sam Adams. Food trucks from Suburban But of course, not much is better than plopping down a Wiener, Miller’s Grille and Schnibs will be parked and ready to hunk of meat or a few hot dogs on the grill, putting some hand out food. The night concludes with a fireworks show. beer in a coozie and hanging out in the backyard with some Festivities run from 4 – 10:30 p.m. friends on the fourth. No one will hold it against you if you stay The Longmont Symphony Orchestra will be hosting a conin that night. Check out the Boulder County Farmers’ Markets cert and a picnic contest on July 4 at noon at Olde Town for local and fresh produce and meats. Thompson Park. Best of all, the concert is free. — Wyatt Carlson
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ccording to a new report, many scientific studies about nutrition, as well as the trusted experts who disseminate this information to the public, are being funded by the very entities that should be scrutinized. The report, “Nutrition Scientists on the Take from Big Food,” details the ways that the world’s largest food corporations (aka “Big Food”) exert their influence on nutrition research and the people who conduct it. The report’s author, attorney and food advocate Michele Simon, has previously studied the influence of Big Food on the nation’s largest organization of Registered Dietitians (RD). Together, these reports paint a disturbing picture of how food corporations collude to manipulate how information on nutrition is researched and disseminated. The coyote isn’t just guarding the chicken coop here; it built the thing, and is holding onto the key.
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The new report focuses on the American Society of Nutrition (ASN), which Simon characterized as a trade organization for nutrition scientists when we spoke by phone. But the ASN’s true mission may not be obvious to the casual reader who reads the organization’s mission statement. “The American Society for Nutrition (ASN) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing together the world’s top researchers, clinical nutritionists and industry to advance our knowledge and application of nutrition for the sake of humans and animals.” The researchers, nutritionists and industries in question are brought together twice a year for ASN conventions, where industry sponsors like Coca-Cola, Nestle, Hershey’s, Monsanto, Cargill and many other food giants pay big money for access to nutrition researchers, and even host their own sessions at the conference.
While most of the sponsored sessions disclose the corporate funder, Simon’s report notes, the industry ties are not always obvious. A recent session, for example, called “Sweeteners and Health: Current Understandings, Recent Research Findings and Directions for Future,” was sponsored by the Rippe Lifestyle Institute. The Institute’s founder James Rippe, according to the report, has been paid a $41,000 a month retainer by the Corn Refiners Association, which represents the makers of high fructose corn syrup. One of the session’s “learning objectives” was to “understand whether or not there is a linkage between sugar consumption and obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease as well as other metabolic diseases.” The sugar lobby “... has more than a passing interest” in this matter, Simon notes. Rippe has consulted for many other members of the junk food industry as well, including Coca-Cola, Dr. Pepper,
McDonald’s, Kraft Foods, General Mills and Kellogg. Meanwhile, the ASN publishes one of the most respected scientific journals dedicated to nutrition, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN). Several ASN executives with close ties to industry sit on the AJCN’s editorial board, where they help decide what gets published and what doesn’t. “It’s hard for good nutrition researchers to get funding and published,” Simon told me. “That’s why people turn to industry sources. But the ones with too much integrity to take money from industry are facing difficulty and hostility in getting published, because the gatekeepers are on the take from industry. So a lot of good science isn’t getting published. That puts a chill on the research climate in general.” “People need to understand when they see the latest nutrition science story see BIG FOOD Page 52
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being reported, it’s always good to question where the funding comes from.” And when the evidence against a mainstay of Big Food grows to the point where it can’t be contained, the food industry uses platforms like the AJCN to confuse the issue, or kick the can down the road a little further with claims that “more research is needed.” The AJCN has repeatedly propagated the notion that processed foods are being unfairly vilified and that nearly all foods are processed foods. Any time a piece of food is cut, frozen or cooked, it’s by definition processed, according to a recent AJCN report. Of course, many processed foods contain added sugars, which have been in the news lately since the FDA recommended they be noted on the nutrition label as distinct from naturally occurring sugars. Not surprisingly, the American Sugar Association, an ASN sponsor, has come out strongly against the FDA’s recommendation. The ASN has too, couching its true motives behind wording that inaccurately suggests the organization’s true concern is for consumers’ health. “This topic is controversial and a lack of consensus remains in the scientific evidence on the health effects of added sugars alone versus sugars as a whole. There is also lack of evidence on the usefulness of a declaration of added sugars on the label to improve food choices and the health of consumers.” But the topic is only “controversial,” Simon’s report notes, “...because the food industry is worried that consumers are becoming more aware of the health effects of too much added sugar, and differentiating naturally occurring sugars from added ones may negatively
impact sales of some of their products.” “The food industry is all about confusing American consumers, making sure they don’t really understand how to eat right,” Simon told WBEZ in Chicago. “Nutrition science is not that complicated. We’ve known for decades that we should be eating more whole foods, staying away from junk food and processed food, and making plant-based foods the center of your plate.” A prior report by Simon, in 2013, focused on Big Food’s influence on the Academy for Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), which represents thousands of RDs nationwide. The AND annual convention “...looks like a junk food expo,” Simon told WBEZ. In order to ensure that RDs retain control of Big Food’s messaging, the organization has helped put laws on the books of 47 states that make it illegal for unlicensed individuals to give dietary advice for medical conditions. Memos that were leaked to Forbes in 2012 by concerned RDs show that AND members were encouraged to file legal complaints against any incidence of unlicensed individuals giving nutritional advice. By managing which nutritional research is funded and published, and how nutritional advice is disseminated, and by whom, Big Food corporations are trying their best to keep consumers eating their products. But this propaganda machine can’t completely stop informed consumers from gathering information from truly independent journals and media outlets, and sharing this information among themselves. Or from calling BS on the notion a sliced apple is a processed food comparable to an apple Pop-Tart. Boulder Weekly
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he charming little town of Berthoud lies just 30 minutes from Boulder but it feels worlds, even decades, away. As I pulled up to City Star Brewing, under heavy clouds and light rain on an early Friday morning, people were out hanging their flags, running their errands and opening the many small businesses that line the center of town. This town’s pride and character persisted as I entered the brewery. Co-owner, John Way, opened the door for me as he held his two-month-old son in the other arm. His wife and co-owner, Whitney Taylor, stood behind him, welcoming me into their establishment, which is uniquely adorned with a large community table in the center of room and, above it, the artfully crafted light fixture that John made out of an old oak barrel. I had heard City Star followed a purist mentality when it came to brewing — avoiding foreign substances and chemicals that aid in the efficiency practices of many breweries. After speaking to the husband-and-wife team, I learned they haven’t limited themselves to a strict set of rules, but more a simplistic confidence in natural ingredients and processes, with a thirst for knowing and mastering their craft. “I don’t use any foreign substancCourtesy of City Star Brewing es in my beer because, well, I drink a lot of it,” John explained. “I don’t know exactly what’s in a lot of these substances, and so I don’t want to ingest that into my body. We’ve found these ingredients are unnecessary to us, so why subject our customers to them?” The commonly used products and additives used in beer have not been found to be harmful, but brewers like John don’t find them necessary to their processes. For John, brewing using only natural ingredients was a natural progression rather than a conscious decision. “I didn’t need any products like anti-foam when I was home brewing, so when I moved to a larger scale, I figured, why put something City Star Brewing makes beer in a purist manner. in the beer I really don’t need?” They showed me around their brew house — a 3.5 barrel system that produced 795 barrels last year (that’s 1,590 kegs). While almost all of their brews are unfiltered, John laughed as he picked up a small device he has used to filter a few of his beers, explaining, “It’s definitely a [do-it-yourself ] project — actually made for water filtration. It does the job but can’t handle the sediment too well.” They used this filter before the labor-intensive hand bottling and waxing of their first two bottle selections. The do-it-yourself attitude is alive at City Star and their passion for what they do shows in their success. City Star is also soon expanding, taking over the space next door to them. But they will still maintain a modest-sized operation, hoping to brew around 200 additional barrels in the coming year. For City Star, quality is superior to quantity. John noted: “We make high quality, delicious beer. We use the highest quality ingredientsfrom grain, hops and water, to our processes. I’m a process geek. We’re always trying to fine-tune our processes.” His yearning to master brewing likely has a lot to do with wanting to know exactly what ingredients are going into his beer. As their new baby slept quietly in John’s arms, Whitney handed me one of their wax-dipped bottles of Scoundrel, a sour Brown Ale aged in cabernet barrels, saying, “It’s about personality. From the beer we make, to the people working in our taproom, that’s what we’re striving for. We offer personality coupled with beer.” Boulder Weekly
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To determine whether you are aligned with the cosmic flow, please answer the following questions: 1. Would you say that your current situation is more akin to treading water in a mosquito-ridden swamp or conducting a ritual of purification in a clear mountain stream? 2. Have you been wrestling with boring ghosts and arguing with traditions that have lost most of their meaning? Or have you been transforming your past and developing a riper relationship with your roots? 3. Are you stuck in a gooey muck? Or are you building a flexible new foundation?
“I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I am doing,” said composer John Cage in describing his creative process. That’s excellent counsel for you to meditate on, Cancerian. The less expertise and certainty you have about the rough magic you’re experimenting with, the more likely it is that this magic will lead you to useful breakthroughs. To bolster Cage’s advice and help you get the most from your period of self-reinvention, I offer you this quote from Picasso: “I imitate everyone except myself.”
It’s the power-building phase of your astrological cycle. To take maximum advantage, convey the following message to your subconscious mind: “I know you will provide me with an abundance of insight, inspiration and energy for whatever intention I choose to focus on. And during the next four weeks, my intention will be to cultivate, expand and refine my personal power. I will especially focus on what author Stephen R. Covey called ‘the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.’”
“I find a lot of people physically attractive, but finding people mentally and spiritually attractive is different and much harder for me.” So says 40ozshawty on her Tumblr page. If you share that frustration, I have good news. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re due to encounter a higher-than-usual percentage of mentally and spiritually attractive people in the next six weeks. But I wonder how you’ll deal with this abundance. Will you run away from it, feeling overwhelmed by the prospect that your life could get more interesting and complicated? Or will you embrace it, daringly welcoming the interesting complications?
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Taurus singer Sam Smith won four Grammys this year, largely on the strength of his hit single “Stay with Me.” The song has a lush gospel choir backing up his lead vocals, or so it seems. But in fact, every voice in that choir is his own. He recorded 20 separate harmony tracks that were woven together to create the big sound. What would be the equivalent in your world, Taurus? How could you produce a wealth of support for yourself? What might you do to surround yourself with a web of help and nourishment? How can you amplify and intensify your efforts so they have more clout? Now would be an excellent time to explore possibilities like these.
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Born under the sign of Gemini, Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a French painter who upset traditionalists. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he wasn’t interested in creating idealistic art based on historical and religious themes. He focused on earthy subjects about which he had direct experience, like the day-to-day lives of peasants and laborers. So even though he became a highly praised celebrity by his mid-30s, the arbiters of the art world tried to exclude him. For example, they denied him a place in Exposition Universelle, a major international exhibition in Paris. In response, Courbet built a temporary gallery next door to the main hall, where he displayed his own work. As you strive to get your voice heard, Gemini, I urge you to be equally cheeky and innovative. Buy yourself a megaphone or erect your own clubhouse or launch a new enterprise. Do whatever it takes to show who you really are.
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Your words of wisdom come from Leo artist Andy Warhol: “Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years, when they could just say, ‘So what.’ That’s one of my favorite things to say. ‘So what.’” Can I interest you in that approach, Leo? It has similarities to the Buddhist strategy of cultivating non-attachment — of dropping your fixations about matters that can’t be controlled or changed. But I suspect you would draw special benefits from the breezy, devil-may-care spirit of Warhol’s version. So start there.
I’m a big fan of science and logic and objective thinking. Most of us need more of that good stuff. The world would be a saner, safer place if we all got regular lessons on how to be more reasonable and rational. But in the immediate future, Scorpio, I’ll steer you in a different direction. I believe you will benefit from injecting your imagination with primal raw crazy wild mojo. For example, you might read utopian science fiction and fairy tales about talking animals and poetry that scrambles your intellectual constructs. You could remember your dreams and ruminate about them as if they were revelations from the Great Beyond. You may also find it healthy to fantasize profusely about forbidden and impossible and hilarious adventures.
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In her late 20s, J. K. Rowling was a single mother living on welfare. That’s when she began work on her Harry Potter books. Craig Newmark had turned 42 by the time he founded Craigslist. One of the world’s most oft-visited websites is HuffingtonPost.com, which Arianna Huffington established when she was 54. As for Harland Sanders, creator of KFC: He didn’t begin building the global empire of fried-chicken restaurants until the age of 65. I hope the preceding serves as a pep talk, Virgo, reminding you that it’s never to late to instigate the project of a lifetime. The time between now and your birthday in 2016 will be an especially favorable phase to do so. Start ruminating on what it might be.
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There are lots of inquiries and invitations coming your way — perhaps too many. I don’t think you should pursue all of them. In fact, I suspect that only one would ultimately make you a better human being and a braver explorer and a wiser lover. And that one, at first glance, may have not as much initial appeal as some of the others. So your first task is to dig deep to identify the propositions that are attractive on the surface but not very substantial. Then you’re more likely to recognize the offer that will have lasting value even if it doesn’t make a spectacular first impression.
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I think you will generate good fortune for yourself by choosing between two equally invigorating but challenging tasks: losing your illusion or using your illusion. Both are quite worthy of your attention and intelligence. To succeed at either would fuel your emotional growth for months to come. You probably can’t do them both, however. So which will it be: Will you purge the illusion or put it to work for you?
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Do you sometimes imagine yourself to be an underachieving underdog? If so, I suggest you start weaning yourself from that fantasy. Do you on occasion allow people to take advantage of you? It’s time to outgrow that role. Do you ever flirt with being a self-pitying martyr? Say bye-bye to that temptation. Cosmic forces are conspiring to relieve you of tendencies to act in any or all of those ways. I’m not saying you will instantly transform into a swashbuckling hero who knocks people over with your radiant self-assurance. But you will, at the very least, be ready to learn much, much more about how to wield your vulnerability as a superpower.
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THANK YOU DENVER POST Here is quick update on the continuing trials and tribulations of Ken Buck, our nut job, Tea Party embarrassment of a Congressman who holds Colorado’s 4th CD seat. In only his first few months in office, Buck has already managed to become a national laughing stock. First, he can’t say the name of any legislation put forward by Democrats without first attaching the word Obama to it. Obamacare, Obamatrade, Obamabudget. Come on Ken, don’t be the guy who tells the same stupid joke a hundred times, surely you got some border crossin’ and same-sex marriage jokes in that bag of tricks of yours. Next, Buck got photographed holding a Red, White and Blue AR-15 assault rifle that he actually, not kidding, keeps above a copy of the Second Amendment in his congressional office. He then tried to turn the fact that his irresponsible behavior with his gun caused an investigation. He blamed the investigation on a liberal conspiracy that was somehow tied to the Benghazi investigation. Nice one Ken. It’s good to know that when the UN troops attack America from Mexico, you’ll be the only congressman armed and ready to save America. How bad is it? Buck’s own party just tried to impeach and remove him from his elected ceremonial position as Republican Freshman Class President. It’s a meaningless, powerless position that made him in charge of the punch at fundraising events or something like that, but they still don’t want him to have it. All this in just his first few months. Who could have predicted it? Well, honestly, anyone who ever followed the career of Ken Buck. Buck is performing exactly as he has his entire time in elected office. Which brings us to the title of this segment: Thank you Denver Post. Thank you as in the way Jon Stewart said “thank you” when Donald trump announced his run for the presidency. But we are still puzzled as to why an actual news organization would have told its sizable readership to vote for Ken Buck, a politician who has been pulling his foot out of his mouth for Boulder Weekly
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n Wednesday, Measure 91, the first part of the ballot initiative approved by 56 percent of Oregon voters in November, officially took effect. The state, which, in 1998 became the second to pass a medical marijuana statute, joins Colorado, Washington and Alaska (whose law went into effect in February) in decriminalizing adult possession of marijuana. Oregon citizens 21 or older can now legally possess up to 8 ounces of leaf marijuana and four cannabis plants in their homes, as long as the plants are out of public view. They can hold 1 ounce, though not use it, in public, though use is legal on private property. Marijuana cannot be taken out of state, including neighboring Washington, which has legalized recreational consumption as well. It can be shared but not sold until regulated sales begin. Regulation will be under the state’s Liquor Control Commission. Licensing for commercial growers, processors and retail outlets won’t start until Jan. 4, 2016, with stores expected to open sometime in the fall of next year. (In Colorado, retail stores were open in Denver a year and two months after the passage of Amendment 64.) That two-year delay between passage and implementation is too long for many legislators. A joint HouseSenate marijuana committee is seeking to make it possible for recreational buyers to purchase limited amounts from existing medical outlets beginning Oct. 1 of this year. Senate Bill 460, passed unanimously out of com-
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mittee, would allow adults to purchase one-quarter ounce of leaf marijuana per day as well as seeds and plant starts for home grows. Edibles would remain accessible only to medical patients. One of the main reasons legislators are pushing hard to allow this narrow, 18-month exemption is pretty obvious. Possessing marijuana is now legal, but unless they have generous friends or someone with a medical card who will buy for them, Oregon users still have to find and purchase product on the black market that legalization is intended to eventually destroy. That puts medical patients under stress to sell to friends, and many local dispensaries, expecting to convert to retail sales, are hurting while waiting out the transition. Measure 91 bears similarities to Amendment 64. As in Colorado, employers have the ability to hire and fire employees based on cannabis use, even with a medical card and off the job, a right that was recently bolstered by a Colorado Supreme Court ruling. And the legislation has provisions against driving under the influence, which means the state will grapple with how to tell if drivers with cannabis in their system are impaired, and if so, how much. In 15 counties in eastern Oregon, at least 55 percent of voters opposed Measure 91. The new law allows local governments in those counties to ban any marijuana-related businesses, including medical dispensa-
ries. None of those counties will share in any cannabis tax revenues, which the state sets at 17 percent, with local municipalities able to add on three percent for themselves if voters approve. City councils can vote to prohibit early sales and county commissioners can ban sales in unincorporated areas. Next up for the bill is getting the full Senate and House votes and the signature of Gov. Kate Brown. Proponents are quietly optimistic that this stopgap measure will pass, especially in the larger cities. In other state news, Rhode Island lawmakers left dozens of bills in the lurch when they adjourned in June,
including one that would have made the state next in line for limited legalization. The Marijuana Regulation, Control and Taxation Act would allow adults to possess up to 1 ounce of marijuana and grow one plant and allow retail sales, cultivation and testing facilities. Lawmakers are already discussing a special fall session to end the legislative logjam and pass the bill. As the 2016 election approaches, initiatives are in various stages of planning in several states, notably Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and California. Though the state was the first to regulate medical marijuana and is probably the largest producer of marijuana of all states, California is the one most people are watching most carefully. Proposition 19, which would have regulated, controlled and taxed recreational cannabis, was defeated in 2010, 53.5 percent to 46.5 percent, and attempts in 2012 and 2014 never materialized. Polls indicate that 2016 is looking better, and were it successful, the entire West Coast, from Alaska to Mexico, would be rid of the scourge of the drug war. You can hear Leland discuss his most recent column and Colorado cannabis issues each Thursday morning on KGNU. http://news.kgnu.org/weed
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Dear Dan: This is going to sound like bragging, but my appearance is intrinsic to my kink. I’m a gay male gymnast. Most of the guys on my college team are annoyed by the kind of objectification we routinely come in for. (We actually don’t want to be auctioned off at yet another sorority fundraiser, thanks.) But I’ve always been turned on by the thought of being a piece of meat. I’ve masturbated for years about dehumanization. Being in bondage, hooded and gagged — not a person anymore, faceless, nude, on display, completely helpless. (Just typing that sentence made me hard.) It finally happened. I found a guy on Recon.com (which I discovered on your podcast, so thank you). He is into BDSM, which isn’t the goal for me, and he wanted to do some of “his stuff ” to me while I was dehumanized and helpless. We had a long talk about what I was okay with (gentle tit clamps, some butt play, very light spanking) and what I wasn’t okay with. I didn’t want to be marked. He asked what I meant by that, and I said, “No bruises, no welts, no red marks.” He didn’t bruise me, but he did something that it didn’t occur to me to rule out: He shaved off all my body hair — pits, pubes, legs, ass, chest. I’m angry, but at the same time, I’m seriously
turned on by the thought of seeing this guy again. I also have a boyfriend. I thought going in that this would be a one-time thing, that I would get this out of my system and never tell my boyfriend about it, but I don’t think I can do that now. (Maybe I should’ve figured out that something I’ve been jacking off about since age 13 isn’t something I could do just once.) What do I say to my boyfriend about being suddenly hairless and about my kink? And what do I say to the guy? I want to go back and continue to explore being an object, but I don’t feel like I can trust him. — Desire Erased Humanity Until My Aching Nuts Explode Dear DEHUMANE: You could tell your boyfriend the partial truth, DEHUMANE, or you could tell your boyfriend the whole truth. The partial truth would go something like this: “Guess what, honey? I shaved off all my body hair all by myself just for fun. Do you like it? And, hey, we’ve been dating for a while, so I should probably lay all my kink cards on the table.” Then you tell him about these fantasies — to be dehumanized, to be an object, to be help-
less — and you do it with a smile on your face and a bone in your jock. Remember: You’re not sharing a tragic cancer diagnosis with him. You’re sharing something fun, interesting and exciting about your sexuality. Don’t panic — and don’t hold it against him — if he reacts negatively at first. This is the start of a conversation, not the end of it, and it’s a conversation about his desires, too, DEHUMANE, not just yours. If it turns out that dehumanization/ objectification isn’t something he can do, and it’s not something he could allow you to do with others, then you’re not right for each other. End the relationship and date kinksters you meet on Recon, and disclose your kinks earlier to any presumed-to-be-vanilla guys you date. (You never know: You could disclose your kink to a presumed-to-be-vanilla boyfriend and discover that he’s as kinky as or kinkier than you are.) The full truth would go something like this: Hand him this column. DEHUMANE’s boyfriend, if you’re reading this, please know that the mistake your boyfriend made — doing this behind your back in the hopes that one experience would satisfy his curiosity forever — is a common one. A lot of people, kinky and not, believe that kinky desires don’t work the same way vanilla desires do, i.e., unlike “normal” sexual desires
(fucking, sucking, rimming), kinky desires (pissing, spanking, binding) only have to be acted on once. Do it once, get the kink out of your system, enjoy vanilla sex — and only vanilla sex — for the rest of your life. But kinks don’t work that way. In the same way that “normal” people don’t wanna fuck just once in their lives, a person with your boyfriend’s kinks isn’t going to wanna be objectified and dehumanized just once in his life. Your boyfriend didn’t know that before he did it the first time, but he knows it now. If you can find it in your heart to forgive him, you could wind up with a very hot and very grateful guy. Back to you, DEHUMANE: Put Recon Guy on hold until after you full or partial the boyfriend. If you do want to play with him again — because you’re single or because your boyfriend approves — have an out-of-roles conversation with him about what happened last time. He didn’t hurt you, he tricked you, and you’re understandably wary of playing with him again. If you do play with him again — a big if — this time anything you haven’t ruled in is automatically ruled out. No tricks. With any luck, your boyfriend, if he feels like he can trust you again, will be there to keep an eye on him and to enjoy the sight of your helpless, faceless body. Send questions to mail@savagelove.net and follow @fakedansavage on Twitter
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